Emotions and Crime: Towards a Criminology of Emotions

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Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Preface and acknowledgements List of contributors Introduction On the emotionality of crime Why crime and emotions? Why not? Part 1: Crime and emotions Part 2: Punishment and emotions Part 3: Doing criminology as emotion work PART 1: Crime and emotions 1. Male violence against women in intimate relationships: The contribution of stress and male peer support Introduction Definition of violence against women Stress, male peer support and violence against women Conclusion References 2. The role of emotions for female co-offenders Introduction ‘Malestream’ criminology and rationality – the absence of emotions Emotions, pathways into crime and continued motivations to offend Emotions and the preoccupation with ‘choice’ Conclusion – moving forward Note References 3. American self-radicalising terrorists and conversions to radical action: Emotional factors and the allure of ‘jihadi cool/chic’ Introduction McCauley and Moskalenko’s twelve pathways to radicalisation The rhetorics of ‘jihadi cool’ or ‘jihadi chic’ Analysing the rhetorical mechanics of ‘jihadi cool’ Colleen LaRose: from abused victim to ‘Jihad Jane’ The Tsarnaev Brothers: from ideal immigrants to the ‘Boston Marathon Bombers’ Omar Mateen: from misfit to ‘Orlando Night Club Killer’ Conclusion Note References 4. ‘Violence is difficult, not easy’: The emotion dynamics of mass atrocities Introduction: The salience of emotions Emotions and atrocity crimes: from absence to presence Why violence is difficult: confrontational tensions and fear Emotional dynamics of dominance and humiliation Vengeance and revenge mechanisms Emotions as intrinsic rewards of violent atrocities Conclusion: a cautious note Notes References PART 2: Punishment and emotions 5. ‘Forty-five colour photographs’: Images, emotions and the victim of domestic violence Introduction Forty-five colour photographs – Stephanie’s story Emotions of the image of violence Controlling emotion/controlling victims Making the victim/making the image The wilful victim Closing arguments Notes References 6. Punitiveness and the emotions of punishment: Between solidarity and hostility Introduction The problem with rationalist understandings of punishment The role of emotions in recent criminological scholarship A return to emotions via the rise of punitiveness The emotions of punishment in criminal justice: lessons from sociology and social psychology The emotions of punishment beyond criminal justice: the psychology of justice and the politics of hostility Conclusion Note References 7. Capital punishment and the emotional public sphere in midtwentieth century Britain Introduction: capital punishment and emotion The emotional public sphere Capital punishment in mid-twentieth century Britain Derek Bentley Ruth Ellis The limits of the emotional public sphere Mahmood Mattan Conclusion: emotion, criminology and politics of feeling Notes References PART 3: Doing criminology as emotion work 8. Prison life as ‘emotion culture’: Reflections on some of the emotional challenges of conducting prison ethnography Introduction Four approaches to prison research Ethnographic experiences of prison life Prison life as ‘emotion culture’ Emotion work among prison guards Emotional, methodological and moral challenges of prison ethnography Conclusion Note References 9. Witnessing, responsibility and spectatorship in the aftermath of violence: Reflections from Srebrenica Introduction Spectators of suffering, mass media and complicity The Bosnian War and the fall of Srebrenica The aftermath of Srebrenica: 11 July 2015 Beyond spectatorship and towards witnessing Conclusion References 10. Death justice: Navigating contested death in the digital age Introduction: Death duty The contingent politics of the dead and their visibility Coroners, bereavement and criminologies of the dead Bereavement stories Death and databases Conclusion: the sting of death References 11. ‘Feeling criminology’: Learning from emotions in criminological research Introduction Positioning emotions as intellectual resources: the how The potential impacts of using emotions in criminological research: the what Feeling criminology: the why Three questions for ‘feeling criminology’ Conclusions Note References Postscript Concluding thoughts: Some lessons from being ‘liminal’ By way of an ending? Another beginning? Living in the global North and working in the global ‘South’: A personal account Conclusion: moving towards an emotional civic criminology Note References Index