January 2021 Academic & Specialist Bristol University Press

New Horizons in Criminology

Imaginative Criminology: Of Spaces Past, Present and Future Lizzie Seal, Maggie O'Neill

New Horizons in Criminology

Imaginative Criminology: Of Spaces Past, Present and Future
Lizzie Seal, Maggie O'Neill


Paperback | Jan 2021 | Bristol University Press | 9781529202731 | 176pp | 234x156mm | RFB | AUD$49.99, NZD$59.99

Founded in cultural, textual, and ethnographic analysis, this distinctive and engaging book proposes an imaginative criminology, focusing on how spaces of transgression, control or confinement are lived, portrayed and imagined.

These include spaces of control or confinement, including prison and borders, and spaces of resistance. Examples range from camps where asylum seekers and migrants are confined, to the exploration of deviant identities and the imagined spaces of surveillance and control in young adult fiction. 

Drawing on oral history, fictive portrayals, walking methodologies, and ethnographic and arts-based research, this book pays attention to issues of gender, sexuality, age, ethnicity, mobility and nationality as they intersect with lived and imagined space.