2018
Johns, Diana F. Being and Becoming an Ex-Prisoner. Routledge, 2018.
Despite broad scholarship documenting the compounding effects and self-reproducing character of incarceration, ways of conceptualising imprisonment and the post-prison experience have scarcely changed in over a century. Contemporary correctional thinking has congealed around notions of risk and management. This book aims to cast new light on men’s experience of release from prison. More information...
Rush, Peter and Young, Alison. “The Image-characters of Criminal Justice in Tokyo,” in Pearson, Ashley; Giddens, Thomas and Tranter, Kieran (eds.,). Law and Justice in Japanese Popular Culture: From Crime Fighting Robots to Duelling Pocket Monsters. Routledge, 2018.
This volume brings together a range of global scholars to reflect on and critically engage with the place of law and justice in Japan’s popular cultural legacy. It explores not only the global impact of this legacy, but what the images, games, narratives, and artefacts that comprise it reveal about law, humanity, justice, and authority in the twenty-first century. More information…
Spivakovsky, Claire; Seear, Kate and Carter, Adrian (eds.,). Critical Perspectives on Coercive Interventions: Law, Medicine and Society. Routledge, 2018.
Examining the ethical, social and legal issues involved in coerced care, this book brings together the views and insights of leading researchers from a range of disciplines, including criminology, law, ethics, psychology and public health, as well as legal and medical practitioners, social-service ‘consumers’ and government officials. More information…
Voigt, Thomas; Day, Andrew and Balandin, Susan. “The Unintended Consequences of Heroism or Acts of Bravery on Civilians,” in Efthimiou, Olivia; Allison, Scott T. and Franco, Zeno E. (eds.,). Heroism and Wellbeing in the 21st Century: Applied and Emerging Perspectives. Routledge, 2018.
Offering a holistic take on an emerging field, this edited collection examines how heroism manifests, is appropriated, and is constructed in a broad range of settings and from a variety of disciplines and perspectives... This book applies a critical psychological perspective in synthesising the social construction of heroism and wellbeing, contributing to the development of global wellbeing indicators and measures. More information...
Wood, Mark A. Antisocial Media: Crime-watching in the Internet Age. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
This book provides a cutting-edge introduction to Internet-facilitated crime-watching and examines how social media have shifted the landscape for producing, distributing, and consuming footage of crime... Synthesising criminology, media theory, software studies, and digital sociology, Antisocial Media is media criminology for the Facebook age. More information…
Young, Alison. “llicit interventions in public non-spaces: Unlicensed images,” in Manderson, Desmond (ed.,). Law and the Visual: Representations, Technologies, Critique. University of Toronto Press, 2018.
In Law and the Visual, leading legal theorists, art historians, and critics come together to present new work examining the intersection between legal and visual discourses. Proceeding chronologically, the volume offers leading analyses of the juncture between legal and visual culture as witnessed from the fifteenth to the twenty-first centuries. More information…