Emerald International Handbook of Activist Criminology

Victoria Canning is Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Bristol, UK.Greg Martin is Associate Professor of Criminology, Law and Society in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Sydney, Australia.Steve Tombs is Emeritus Professor at The Open University, UK.

• Foreword; Onwubiko Agozino Chapter 1. Why ‘Activist Criminology’, Why Now? ; Victoria Canning, Greg Martin, and Steve Tombs Part One: Foundational Epistemological, Methodological and Political Considerations Chapter 2. Activist Criminology Methods; Joanne Belknap and Alejandra Portillos Chapter 3. Janus-Faced Criminology: Negotiating the Boundaries Between Activist and Administrative Research; Keir Irwin-Rogers Chapter 4. Criminological Artivism: Examining the Potential of Collaboration and Coproduction Between Socially Engaged Art and Critical Criminology; Will Jackson, Will McGowan, and Emma Murray Chapter 5. Activists as Knowledge Producers: How can Grassroots Activism Contribute to Green Criminological Scholarship?; Ayse Sargin Chapter 6. Cultural Criminology Activism at the Intersection of Crime-Media Research; Greg Martin Chapter 7. Hope in Activist Criminology; Rachel Seoighe Part Two: Historical Interventions as Activist Criminology Chapter 8. In Defence of Human Rights: The Political-Academic Experience of The Centre for the Study of Violence, Brazil; Gustavo Lucas Higa, Marcos César Alvarez, and Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti Chapter 9. The Summer of Discontent: The British Prisoners’ Strike of 1972; Cormac Behan Chapter 10. An Activist Criminology Against Torture and Institutional Violence (And Its Academic Denials); Alejandro Forero-Cuéllar and Iñaki Rivera-Beiras Chapter 11. Militarized Democracy and Criminalization of Civil Activism in Nigeria; Luke Amadi And Imoh Imoh-Ita Part Three: Situating Sites Of Activism And Resistance Chapter 12. Theater in Prison: Toward a Subversive Stance in Criminology; Chloé Branders Chapter 13. Open Your Eyes: Confronting Indigenous Genocide with Pedagogy; David Rodríguez Goyes Chapter 14. The Struggle for Agency: Worker Resistance Narratives in Norway; Hanna Maria Malik Chapter 15. What about Environmental ‘Victims’? Methodological Reflections for an Activist Criminology; Lorenzo Natali, Anna Berti Suman, and Marília de Nardin Budó Chapter 16. Power, Agency, and The Politics of Dissention in Activist Spaces: Sea-Rescue Ngos’ Resistance to Illegalisation and its Contradictions; Giulia Ferranti Chapter 17. Rise Up: Activist Criminology, Colonial Injustice and Abolition; Thalia Anthony and Vicki Chartrand Chapter 18. Institutional Child Sexual Abuse Activism: Reconsidering The Role Of Public Inquiries; Dave McDonald and Jessica C. Oldfield Part Four: Practice-Based Interventions in Activist Criminology Chapter 19. Bridging Urban-Rural Grassroots Activism: Activist Criminology in Support of Unified Struggles for Social Change and Social Justice; Tim Goddard and Amy M. Magnus Chapter 20. Craftivism and Crime: Craft as a Vehicle for Criminal and Social Justice Activism; Alyce McGovern and Tal Fitzpatrick Chapter 21. You Have the Right to Remain! Building the ‘Asylum Navigation Board’ to Mitigate UK Border Harms; Victoria Canning and Lisa Matthews Chapter 22. Sports-Based Interventions as Anti-Crimmigration Activism in Rome’s Working-Class Suburb: Self-Reflections on Building Solidarity; Ilaria Aversa Chapter 23. Survivors Speak Out: The Successes and Failures of Hashtag Activism; Stephanie Fohring and Lily Horsfield Chapter 24. Police Accountability Through Community-Focused Officer Training; Jodie M. Dewey Part Five: The Trials And Tribulations Of Advancing Activist Criminology In Contemporary Academia Chapter 25. Teaching Activist Criminology in the Neoliberal University; Aidan O’Sullivan Chapter 26. Making a Difference? Reflections on Sex Work, Activism, and Research for Social Change; Lynzi Armstrong Chapter 27. Walking on Eggshells: Acts of Resistance in Social Work; Linda Briskman Chapter 28. Inquiries and Data Traps: Do Activists Need More Evidence?; Becka Hudson Chapter 29. The Dilemmas of A Dissident Intellectual and Inadequate Activist; Liv S.Gaborit

The editors and contributors are to be congratulated for providing an urgent and much needed critical response to the global politics of harm and the local practices of violence that swirl around, in, and through our collective psyches and our interdependent humanity. This Handbook is an indispensable criminological resource for activists, academics, policy professionals, and students of justice.