Cultural Criminology: An Invitation

About Jeff FerrellJock YoungKeith J. HaywardProf. Jeff Ferrell

Jeff Ferrell is Visiting Professor of Criminology at the University of Kent UK and Professor of Sociology at Texas Christian University USA. He is author of the books Crimes of Style Tearing Down the Streets and Empire of Scrounge. He is co-editor of the books Cultural Criminology Ethnography at the Edge Making Trouble Cultural Criminology Unleashed and Cultural Criminology: Theories of Crime. Jeff Ferrell is founding and current editor of the New York University Press book series Alternative Criminology and one of the founding editors of the journal Crime Media Culture: An International Journal (winner of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers 2006 Charlesworth Award for Best New Journal). In 1998 he received the Critical Criminologist of the Year Award from the Critical Criminology Division of the American Society of Criminology. Keith J. Hayward is Professor of Criminology at the University of Kent UK and holds visiting positions at universities in Australia Brazil and the United States. He has published widely in the areas of criminological theory spatial and social theory visual and popular culture and terrorism and fanaticism. As one of the leading figures in the field of cultural criminology Dr Hayward is particularly interested in the various ways in which cultural dynamics intertwine with the practices of crime and crime control within contemporary society; as a consequence he has written on everything from the role of documentary filmmaking in criminology to the existential allure of Jihadi cool. He is the author co-author or editor of ten books the most recent being Cultural Criminology (2016) a four-volume edited collection for Routledges Major Works series. Currently Dr Hayward is completing a short (non-criminological) book on infantilization and the life course. Jock Young one of the foremost criminologists of our time is Professor of Sociology and Head of the Centre for Criminology at Middlesex University. His work and theories have had a significant influence on the shape of criminology sociology and politics.