Emerald Studies in Culture, Crime, Criminal Justice and the Arts

Submission guidelines

The series is currently calling for full book proposals. Reach out to the series editors or Commissioning Editor for a proposal form.

The series welcomes books on any forms of criminal (in)justice in any country or jurisdiction providing the issue process institution or phenomenon is explored in a visual narrative or sensory mode. The series also encourages contributions from disciplines and fields outside Criminology including Law, History, Media Studies, Cultural Studies, Art and Art History, Architecture, Human/Carceral Geography, English Literature, Creative Writing, Gender Studies, Philosophy and Sociology. Proposals from visual artists and critics are also encouraged. The series welcomes books in a variety of formats e.g. full-length monographs, shortform, edited collections and Handbooks.

To these ends we are interested in receiving submissions on but not limited to the following:

the material physical and spatial aspects of justice and punishment
sensory experiences of criminal justice processes and practices
artistic visual and/or literary representations of justice and injustice in historical and contemporary perspectives
analyses of graphic art street art or graffiti as they pertain to justice and punishment
the architecture aesthetics atmospheres and iconography of courts police stations prisons and places of detention
autobiographical and auto-ethnographic accounts of justice
Work around victims victimisation and victimology
fictional treatments of justice and punishment that would be of interest to scholars
digital technology and justice
media representations of criminal justice.

See our guidance on how to write a proposal

To submit a proposal to this series, please contact the series editors via email:

Sarah Moore
University of Bath, UK
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Travis Linnemann
Kansas State University, USA
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Michael Fiddler
University of Greenwich, UK
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Editorial team

Series Editors

Sarah Moore is Professor in the Department of Social & Policy Sciences at the University of Bath, having previously held posts at Royal Holloway University of London and Queen’s University, Belfast. Her research ranges across the sociology of crime/criminal justice and the sociology of health, linked by an interest in the cultural construction of danger and the social mechanisms of blame. She is the author of two previous books.

Travis Linneman is a cultural criminologist whose research focuses on the ways that crime, violence and disorder are imagined and represented. He is author, co-author and editor of several books and serves on the editorial boards of Theoretical Criminology, Critical Criminology, Current Issues in Criminal Justice (Australia) and Qualitative Criminology and Criminal Justice.

Michael Fiddler is Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Greenwich, where he has taught and researched since 2006. His work sits at the intersection of criminology, space, architecture and visual culture. He is a leading figure in the development of “ghost criminology,” drawing on Jacques Derrida’s notion of hauntology to explore how past harms, absences and spectral presences inform contemporary understandings of crime and justice.

Calls for submissions

Aims and scope

Emerald Studies in Culture, Crime, Criminal Justice and the Arts aims to take criminological inquiry in new and imaginative directions.

The series publishes books that represent all forms of criminal justice from an arts or cultural perspective and that have something new to tell us about space, place and sensory experience as they relate to forms of justice.

Building on emergent interest in the cultural autoethnographic, emotional, visual, narrative and sensory in Criminology, books in the series will introduce readers to imaginative forms of inspiration that deepen our conceptual understanding of the lived experience of punishment and of the process of researching within the criminal justice system as well as discussing the more well-rehearsed problems of cultural representations of justice.

This title is aligned with our fairer society goal

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