Alternative Criminologies

Pat Carlen has published over 20 books on criminal and social justice. Co-founder (with Chris Tchaikovsky) of the UK campaigning group Women in Prison and Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Criminology 2006–2013, she has been a recipient of the American Society of Criminology’s Sellin-Glueck Prize for Outstanding International Contributions to Criminology, the British Society of Criminology’s Award for Outstanding Achievement, and an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from Lincoln University.Leandro Ayres França is a Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Reading. In Brazil, he worked for over a decade as a Criminal Lawyer and later as a Penal Police Officer in Rio Grande do Sul, serving as a Legal Adviser to the Superintendent’s Cabinet and as a Trainer at the Penitentiary Services School. He has taught at Faculdade Estácio (Porto Alegre), Brazil, the Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR), Brazil, and the Universidade de Santa Cruz do Sul (UNISC), Brazil. Since 2016, he has coordinated GECC/CRIMLAB. Leandro is the Co-author of the award-winning As Marcas do Cárcere (2016), with Alysson Ramos Artuso and Alfredo Steffen Neto; Co-editor of Alternative Criminologies (2017) and Justice Alternatives (2019), with Pat Carlen – both also published in Brazil; and Editor of the Atlas do Pensamento Criminológico Brasileiro (2022).

• PART I: Theoretical perspectives 1. Alternative criminologies: an introduction 2. Cultural criminology continued 3. Criminologies of the market 4. Punishment and political economy 5. Governing through crime 6. Criminology and consumerism 7. Feminist Criminologies 8. Queer Criminologies 9. The Politics of Sexuality: Alternative visions of sex and social change 10. Southern & Decolonial Criminologies 11. The Criminology of Mobility 12. Green Criminologies 13. Criminology and Cyber Technologies PART II: Critical issues for the 21st century 14. Crime And Media 15. Crime, Risk and Algorithms 16. The Criminal Pursuit of Serious White-Collar Crimes 17. Hate Crimes 18. Criminology and Terrorism: Toward a critical approach 19. Violence Against Women 20. Atrocity: The Latin American experience 21. Criminology And Criminal Justice in the New World of the Covid-19 Pandemic 22. Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes 23. The Challenge of State Crime 24. Mass Incarceration 25. Prisoner Reentry as Myth and Ceremony 26. Towards The Global Elimination of the Death Penalty: A Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Punishment 27. Peculiar Institution: America’s death penalty today 28. Desistance: Envisioning futures 29. Alternative Criminologies, Academic Markets and Corporatism in Universities