Hauntology: An Introduction for Criminologists

In response to the recent ’spectral turn’ within criminology this book presents, for the first time, a concise, comprehensive, approachable, and critically engaged guide to hauntology for criminological researchers and graduate students.

Paul McGuinness is a lecturer in Criminology and Sociology at the University of Sussex. His work seeks to combine Criminology, Hauntology and Arts-based Research, and takes inspiration from the study of, separately, cinema and cybernetics.

Alex Simpson is an Associate Professor in Criminology at Macquarie University, Sydney. His work stretches across sociology, geography and organisation studies, focusing on the cultural production of elite urban environments. He has written ethnographies on the financial services industry in the City of London and uses theories of atmosphere and affect to examine the spatial relations of gender, power and exclusion.

Tea Fredriksson is a Senior Lecturer at Stockholm University’s Department of Criminology. Her primary research interest is in spaces and processes that construct social belonging and otherness. Focusing on prisons, desistance journeys, and cultural depictions of harm, she uses intersectional and hauntological frameworks to explore how society talks to and about itself through imag(inari)es of crime and punishment.

Michael Fiddler is an Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Greenwich, London. His published research explores the ways in which space, architecture and visual arts coalesce to inform our understanding of crime and punishment.