Imaginative Criminology: Of Spaces Past, Present and Future

Founded in cultural, textual, and ethnographic analysis, this distinctive and engaging book proposes an imaginative criminology, engaging with critically important contemporary issues such as confinement, immigration and border politics. It focuses on how spaces of transgression are lived, portrayed and imagined, looking at spaces of control, including prison and borders, and spaces of resistance.

Lizzie Seal is Reader in Criminology at University of Sussex. She researches in the areas of historical and cultural criminology. Maggie O’Neill is Professor in Sociology at University College Cork. She is an ethnographer who researches in the areas of cultural criminology, critical theory/feminist theory, biographic, participatory and arts based/walking methods, specifically in relation to sex work and (forced) migration.