Books
Criminology Goes to the Movies: Crime Theory and Popular Culture (with Nicole Rafter) (2011)
From a look at classics like Psycho and Double Indemnity to recent films like Traffic...
The Culture of Punishment: Prison, Society, and Spectacle (2009)
America is the most punitive nation in the world, incarcerating more than 2.3 million people—or...
Media Representations of September 11 (with Steven Chermak and Frankie Y. Bailey) (2003)
Each contributor to this volume offers a fresh, engaging perspective on how the media transformed...
Articles
Empathy and Punishment, Punishment & Society (2012)
With its foundations of injury, harm, and pain, the sociology of punishment is poised to...
In Search of the Ethical in Criminal Justice Practice (with David Polizzi), Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Criminology (2012)
Expanding Horizons of Risk in Criminology (with Leon Anderson), Sociology Compass (2010)
Few topics in the social sciences have witnessed as dramatic an increase in scholarly attention...
Aftermath: Living with the Crisis: From PTC to Governing through Crime, Crime, Media, Culture (2008)
In these disparate voices we can hear the closure occurring — the interlocking mechanisms closing,...
Mapping discursive closings in the war on drugs, Crime, Media, Culture (2007)
This article maps the discursive closing of the most recent war on drugs through a...
Contributions to Books
Social Documentary in Prison: Catching the State in the Act of Punishment, he Arts of Imprisonment: Control, Resistance and Empowerment (2012)
The arts – spanning the visual, design, performing, media, musical, and literary genres – constitute...
The Aesthetics of Crime, Philosophy, Crime and Criminology (2006)
Philosophy, Crime, and Criminology represents the first systematic attempt to unpack the philosophical foundations of...
The New Penology in a Critical Context, Advancing Critical Criminology: Theory and Application (2006)
Advancing Critical Criminology constitutes a timely addition to the growing body of knowledge on critical...