Ignorance, Power and Harm

Alana Barton is Reader in Criminology at Edge Hill University. She has previously worked at the University of Central Lancashire and Liverpool John Moores University. Alana is the author of Fragile Moralities and Dangerous Sexualities (Ashgate, 2005) and co-editor of Expanding the Criminological Imagination (Willan, 2007). Howard Davis is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Edge Hill University. He had a previous career as a social worker, working in the fields of child protection, trauma and bereavement. He has published in a range of journals including the British Journal of Social Work, Disasters, and the British Journal of Criminology.

• Chapter 1. Introduction; Alana Barton and Howard Davis.- Chapter 2. Agnotology and the Criminological Imagination; Alana Barton, Howard Davis and Holly White.- Chapter 3. Counterinsurgency, Empire and Ignorance; Mark McGovern.-  Chapter 4. The Ideology and Mechanics of Ignorance: Child Abuse in Ireland, 1922-1973; Anthony Keating.- Chapter 5. Framing the Crisis: Private Capital to the Rescue; Steve Tombs.- Chapter 6. Managing Ignorance about Māori Imprisonment; Riki Mihaere and Elizabeth Stanley.- Chapter 7. Border (Mis)management, Ignorance and Denial; Victoria Canning.- Chapter 8. Climate Change Denial: ‘Making Ignorance Great Again’; Reece Walters.- Chapter 9. Spectacular Law and Order: Photography, Social Harm and the Production of Ignorance; Alex Dymock.- Chapter 10. Penal Agnosis and Historical Denial: Problematising ‘Common Sense’ Understandings of Prison Officers and Violence in Prison; David Scott.