Criminological Connections, Directions, Horizons: Essays in Honour of Nigel South
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Through his long career, still ongoing and flourishing, Nigel has contributed knowledge in many areas of criminological scholarship and challenged the confines of the discipline, opening up new directions for thinking and debate. In this volume, Nigel’s close colleagues and friends celebrate his exceptional career through essays that draw on, or have been inspired by, his earlier or most recent work. Spanning across the areas of policing, drugs, green, southern, and sensory criminology, these essays offer cutting-edge research and fresh conceptual insights honouring the work of an outstanding criminologist, colleague, friend, and human being.
This volume will be of pivotal interest to students, scholars, and academics in the fields of sociology and criminology, as well as those with an interest in these areas more generally.
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Eamonn Carrabine is Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Essex. His books include Crime in Modern Britain (co-authored, 2002); Power, Discourse and Resistance: A Genealogy of the Strangeways Prison Riot (2004); Crime, Culture and the Media (2008); and Crime and Social Theory (2017). He has published widely on media criminology, the sociology of punishment, and cultural theory. The textbook he co-authors with colleagues from the University of Essex, Criminology: A Sociological Introduction, is now in its fourth edition. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Criminology and is writing a book on the Iconography of Punishment.
Anna Di Ronco is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the Sociology Department of the University of Essex and Director for its Centre for Criminology. Her research critically addresses the dynamics of exclusion and penalisation in the public space as well as performative, visual, and mediated practices of resistance. Her books include Policing Environmental Protest: Power and Resistance in Pandemic Times (2023); Criminology: A Sociological Introduction (co-authored; 2020, 4th ed.); Harm and Disorder in the Urban Space: Social Control, Sense and Sensibility (co-edited; 2021); and Medical Misinformation and Social Harm in Non-Science Based Health Practices: A Multidisciplinary Perspective (co-edited; 2020).
