Stuart Hall, Conjunctural Analysis and Cultural Criminology

Tony Jefferson is Emeritus Professor in Criminology at Keele University, UK. He worked with Stuart Hall and others to produce Resistance through Rituals (1976/2006) and Policing the Crisis (1978/2013).

• Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview.- PART I: Stuart Hall and conjunctural analysis.- Chapter 2: Conjunctural analysis part one: from early political writings to Resistance through Rituals.- Chapter 3: Conjunctural analysis part two: the case of Policing the Crisis.- PART II: Cultural criminology, Theorising and Stuart Hall.- Chapter 4: Cultural criminology part one: the problems with a theory-driven methodology.- Chapter 5: Cultural criminology part two: ethnography, carnival and the need for critique.- Chapter 6: Hall’s theorising: the importance of a principled eclecticism.- PART III: Conjunctural Analysis Today: Brexit, Trump and the Politics of Difference.- Chapter 7: Race, immigration and the politics of difference.- Chapter 8: The Brexit conjuncture part one: the referendum result and how we got to 9/11.- Chapter 9: The Brexit conjuncture part two: from 9/11 to the 2016 Referendum.- Chapter 10: Conclusion: from Policing the Crisis to Trump, and beyond.- PART IV: CODA.- Chapter11: Hall, psychoanalysis and the problem of populist anger.