Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Towards the Poetics of Crime; Part I: Poetics in Crime -- Poetics of Crime; 1 The Phenomenology of Arrest: A Case Study in the Poetics of Police-Citizen Encounters; 2 In the Garden with 'Creative Crime': Kudzu and the Third Branch; 3 Crime Caught in Time: The Poetics of Police Photography; Part II: Crime in Fiction; 4 Measure for Measure: Justice in the Society of Censure; 5 Mark Twain and the Corruption of a Town; 6 Historical Crime Novels and Meta-Reflective Aesthetics
7 The Mafia and Palermo in the Postmodern Urban Imaginary: Cercando PalermoPart III: Crime and Contemporary Popular Culture; 8 Media Myths Regarding Serial Killers: A Gothic Criminology; 9 Imaginaries of Crime, Fantasies of Justice: Popular Criminology and the Figure of the Superhero; 10 The Poetics of Prisonization: Creative Criminology Through the Projector; Part IV: Creative Criminologies; 11 When Prison Blossoms into Art: Dance in Prison; 12 Trauma, Visual Victimology and the Poetics of Justice; 13 Manifesto for a Criminology Beyond Method; Index
The Poetics of Crime is an invitation to reconsider and reimagine how criminological knowledge may be creatively and poetically constructed, obtained, corroborated and applied. Departing from the conventional understanding of criminology as a discipline concerned with refined statistical analyses, survey methods and quantitative measurements, this book shows that criminology can - and indeed should - move beyond such confines to seek sources of insight, information and knowledge in the unexplored corners of poetically and creatively inspired approaches and methodologies
