The haunting effects of crime, violence, and death in our history,
memory, and media spaces
From Abu Ghraib and Holocaust death camps to Marjory Stoneman Douglas
High School and slave plantations, spaces where violent crimes have
occurred can often become forever changed, or "haunted," in the public
imagination. In this volume, Michael Fiddler, Travis Linnemann, and Theo
Kindynis bring together an interdisciplinary group of distinguished
scholars to study this phenomenon, exploring the origins, theory, and
methodology of ghost criminology.
Featuring Jeff Ferrell, Michelle Brown, Eamon Carrabine, and other
prominent scholars, Ghost Criminology takes us inside spaces where the
worst crimes have imprinted themselves on our history, memory, and media
spaces. Contributors explore a wide range of these hauntological topics
from a criminological perspective, including the excavation of graffiti
in the London underground, the phantom of Robert E. Lee in
Charlottesville, VA, during the 2017 riots, and the ghostly evidentiary
traces of crime in motel rooms.
Ultimately, Fiddler, Kindynis, and Linnemann offer ghost criminology as
another way of seeing, and better understanding, the lingering impact of
violence, oppression, and history in today's world. Ghost Criminology
curates cutting-edge research to break exciting new terrain.
