Full Description
This distinctive and engaging book proposes an imaginative criminology, focusing on how spaces of transgression 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, the book pays attention to issues of gender, sexuality, age, ethnicity, mobility and nationality as they intersect with lived and imagined space.
Contents
Imaginative Criminologies of Space - the spaces of imaginative criminology;
Historical Spaces of Confinement 1: Homes for Indigenous Children in Australia;
Historical Spaces of Confinement 2: Magdalene Laundries;
Creative writing and the imagined spaces of imprisonment;
Border Spaces and Places: the age of the camps;
Imagining spaces of violence and transgression in Vancouver and Northern Ireland;
Imagining Dystopian Futures in Young Adult Fiction;
Conclusion.
