Cover -- Half Title -- Endorsement -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Part I Theoretical perspectives -- 1 Alternative criminologies: An introduction -- Critical alternative criminologies with and without Marx 1973-2015 -- Alternative criminologies as constant critique and new ways of knowing -- The significance of alternative criminologies today -- References -- 2 Cultural criminology continued -- Emergence of cultural criminology -- Late modernity and its discontents -- A cultural criminology of and for late modernity -- The immediacy of illicit identity and transgression -- The pervasiveness of power, control and resistance -- The spiralling energy of image and representation -- To be continued ... -- Notes -- References -- 3 Criminologies of the market -- Origins -- Contemporary developments -- Varieties of evidence -- Looking to the future -- References -- 4 Punishment and political economy -- The foundations of the political economy of punishment -- The prison and the factory: punishment as class control -- The limits of the 'old' political economy of punishment -- New directions in the political economy of punishment -- Acknowledgment -- Notes -- References -- 5 Governing through crime -- Introduction -- Thinking about crime and government -- The American 'war on crime' and its consequences -- The rise of the prosecutor politician -- A peculiar institution -- The attorney general and the war on crime -- The death penalty and governors -- Fearing crime and making law -- A history of the idealized citizen subject -- The rise of the crime victim -- Judgment and distrust in the war on crime -- Race, the war on crime, and mass imprisonment -- Governing social institutions through crime -- The family -- Safe schools -- The workplace -- Conclusion -- Notes