Table Of ContentROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC
CRIMINOLOGIES
Featuring contributions from scholars from across the globe, Routledge Handbook of Public Criminolo-
gies is a comprehensive resource that addresses the challenges related to public conversations around
crime and policy. In an era of fake news, misguided rhetoric about immigrants and refugees, and
efforts to toughen criminal laws, criminologists seeking to engage publicly around crime and policy
arguably face an uphill battle. This handbook outlines the foundations of and developments in
public criminology, underscoring the need not only to understand earlier ideas and debates, but
also how scholars pursue public-facing work through various approaches. The first of its kind, this
collection captures diverse and critical perspectives on the practices and challenges of actually doing
public criminology.
The book presents real-world examples that help readers better understand the nature of public
criminological work, as well as the structural and institutional barriers and enablers of engaging
wider audiences. Contributors address policies around crime and crime control, media landscapes,
and changing political dynamics. In examining attempts to bridge the gaps between scholarship,
activism, and outreach, the essays featured here capture important tensions related to inequality and
social difference, including the ways in which criminology can be complicit in perpetuating
inequitable practices and structures, and how public criminology aims—but sometimes fails—to
address them.
The depth and breadth of material in the book will appeal to a wide range of academics, stu-
dents, and practitioners. It is an important resource for early career researchers, more established
scholars, and professionals, with accessible content that can also be used in upper-level under-
graduate classes.
Kathryn Henne is Professor of Regulation and Governance at the Australian National Univer-
sity. Her work focuses on the interface between deviance, technologies of policing, and inequal-
ity. She is the author of Testing for Athlete Citizenship: Regulating Doping and Sex in Sport (2015)
and co-editor (with Blayne Haggart and Natasha Tusikov) of Information, Technology and Control
in a Changing World (2019).
Rita Shah is an Assistant Professor of Criminology at Eastern Michigan University. Her research
examines the ways in which correctional systems are socially and legally constructed and critically
analyses criminological methods and pedagogy. She is the author of The Meaning of Rehabilitation
and its Impact on Parole: There and Back Again in California (Routledge, 2017), which queries the
concept of rehabilitation to determine how, on a legislative and policy level, the term is defined
as a goal of correctional systems.
ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK
OF PUBLIC CRIMINOLOGIES
Edited by Kathryn Henne and Rita Shah
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Title: Routledge handbook of public criminologies / Kathryn Henne & Rita Shah.
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CONTENTS
List of Illustrations viii
Notes on Contributors ix
Foreword: The State of Public Criminology—Progress and Challenges xiv
Elliott Currie
Introduction: Public Criminology Reconsidered—An Invitation 1
Rita Shah and Kathryn Henne
PART I
The Emergence of Public Criminologies 9
1 Everything Still to Play for: Revisiting “Public Criminologies: Diverse
Perspectives on Academia and Policy” 11
Lynn Chancer and Eugene McLaughlin
2 Re-thinking Public Criminology: Politics, Paradoxes, and Challenges 21
Eamonn Carrabine, Maggy Lee, and Nigel South
3 Where Is the Public in Public Criminology? Towards a Participatory
Public Criminology 34
Stuart Henry
4 The Challenge of Transformative Justice: Insurgent Knowledge
and Public Criminology 49
Michelle Brown
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5 Articulation of Liberation Criminologies and Public Criminologies:
Advancing a Countersystem Approach and Decolonization Paradigm 59
Biko Agozino and Kimberley Ducey
PART II
Engaging Publics 73
6 A Revolution in Prosecution: The Campaign to End Mass Incarceration
in Philadelphia 75
Jill McCorkel
7 Reflections from an Accidental Public Scholar 87
Peter B. Kraska
8 Engaging the Public: Access to Justice for Those Most Vulnerable 95
Emily I. Troshynski
9 Public Feminist Criminologies: Reflections on the Activist-Scholar
in Violence against Women Policy 107
Anastasia Powell and Ruth Liston
10 Liberating Abortion Pills in Legally Restricted Settings: Activism as
Public Criminology 120
Mariana Prandini Assis
PART III
Barriers and Challenges 131
11 Strangers Within: Carving Out a Role for Engaged Scholarship in the
University Space 133
Monique Marks
12 The Push and Pull of Going “Public”: Barriers and Risks to Mobilizing
Criminological Knowledge 141
Krystle Shore
13 Public Criminology in China: Neither Public nor Criminology 152
Jianhua Xu and Weidi Liu
14 A Case for a Public Pacific Criminology? 163
Miranda Forsyth, Sinclair Dinnen, and Fiona Hukula
15 The Challenges of Academics Engaging in Environmental Justice Activism 179
Joshua Ozymy and Melissa Jarrell
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PART IV
Critiques and Critical Reflections 191
16 You’re a Criminologist? What Can You Offer Us? Interrogating
Criminological Expertise in the Context of White Collar Crime 193
Fiona Haines
17 Our North Is the South: Lessons from Researching Police-Community
Encounters in São Paulo and Los Angeles 203
Sebastian Sclofsky
18 Confronting Politics of Death in Papua 213
Budi Hernawan
19 Rethinking How “the Public” Counts in Public Criminology 228
David A. Maldonado
20 Does the Public Need Criminology? 238
Vincenzo Ruggiero
PART V
Future Trajectories 247
21 Starting the Conversation in the Classroom: Pedagogy as Public
Criminology 249
Lori Sexton
22 You Are on Indigenous Land: Acknowledgment and Action in
Criminology 259
Lisa Monchalin
23 Time to Think about Patriarchy? Public Criminology in an Era
of Misogyny 271
Meda Chesney-Lind
24 Value-Responsible Design and Sexual Violence Interventions: Engaging
Value-Hypotheses in Making the Criminological Imagination 286
Renee Shelby
25 Abolitionism as a Philosophy of Hope: “Inside-Outsiders” and the
Reclaiming of Democracy 299
David Scott
Index 311
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ILLUSTRATIONS
Tables
5.1 A Comparison of Liberation Criminology and Liberation Sociology 63
18.1 The Indonesian Human Development Index 215
24.1 Potential Value-Hypotheses and “Questions of Action” in Sexual Violence 291
Figures
13.1 Mentions of “Criminologist” and “Sociologist” in China’s Newspapers 155
13.2 Screenshot of Baidu Search about Criminal Psychologists 156
13.3 Mentions of “Criminologist” and “Criminal Psychologist” in China’s Newspapers 158
14.1 The Sub-Division of the Pacific Islands into Three Broad Cultural Areas or
Sub-Regions of the Pacific 165
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NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
Biko Agozino is Professor of Sociology and Africana Studies at Virginia Tech and editor of the
African Journal of Criminology and Justice Studies. He most recently authored Critical, Creative and
Centered Scholar-Activism: The Fourth Dimensionalism of Agwuncha Arthur Nwankw (FDP, 2016),
which joins a collection of other work exploring the relationships between colonization, race,
ethnicity, and treatment by the criminal justice system.
Mariana Prandini Assis holds a Ph.D. in Politics from The New School for Social Research
and is a postdoctoral fellow at The Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University. She is
a feminist Human Rights lawyer in Brazil. Her research interests include feminist legal and polit-
ical theory, women’s and human rights, and legal mobilization.
Michelle Brown is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Tennessee. She is author of
The Culture of Punishment (NYU Press, 2009) and co-editor of the journal Crime Media Culture
and the Routledge International Handbook of Visual Criminology; and senior editor for The Oxford
Encyclopedia of Crime, Media, and Popular Culture. Her current work focuses on visuality, trans-
formative justice, and the role of abolition in dismantling the carceral state.
Eamonn Carrabine is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex. His recent books
include the Routledge International Handbook of Visual Criminology (with Michelle Brown) and
Crime and Social Theory.
Lynn Chancer is Professor of Sociology at Hunter College and Executive Officer of the Soci-
ology Ph.D. program at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is the
author of five books and two edited volumes including High Profile Crimes: When Legal Cases
Become Social Causes and After the Rise and Stall of American Feminism: Taking Back a Revolution.
Along with Eugene McLaughlin, she is a former editor of the journal Theoretical Criminology and
presently a contributing editor of the Journal of Psychosocial Studies.
Meda Chesney-Lind is a Professor of Women’s Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Her area of focus is on women in the criminal justice system, whether that be as victims,
offenders, or workers. Her interest in girls and the juvenile justice system led her to co-author
the book Fighting for Girls: New Perspectives on Gender and Violence (SUNY Press, 2010).
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