Fiddler, Michael ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0695-6770, Linnemann, Travis and Kindynis, Theo (2023) Ghost Criminology: a framework for the discipline’s spectral turn. The British Journal of Criminology: An International Review of Crime and Society (BJC). ISSN 0007-0955 (Print), 1464-3529 (Online) (doi:10.1093/bjc/azad022)

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Abstract

Drawing upon recent criminological scholarship examining spectrality, as well as Jacques Derrida’s notion of hauntology, this article sets out a framework to explore harms experienced as ‘out of joint’. We propose a new sub-discipline of ‘ghost criminology’ as a means to explore and reckon with these afterlives. We identify three strands of the (in)visible, the (in)corporeal and dead space with which to capture phenomena hovering between presence and absence. In doing so, we provide examples of justice being achieved within this sense of time being ‘off its hinges’. A ‘ghost criminology’ provides a means of listening to the voices of the discipline’s dead, as well as the ghosts of its future.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	hauntology; spectral turn; trauma; temporality
Subjects:	K Law > K Law (General)
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences > School of Law & Criminology (LAC)
Last Modified:	05 Jul 2023 15:07
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/42991

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