Building on research into emotions within sociology, this book seeks to show how criminologists can take emotions seriously and why criminology needs to begin considering emotions as a central element of its theoretical, conceptual and methodological apparatus.

Introduction: Crime and Emotions, Emotions and Crime Part 1: Crime and Emotions 1. Male Violence Against Women in Intimate Relationships: The Contribution of Stress and Male Peer Support 2. The Role of Emotions for Female Co-Offenders 3. American Self-Radicalising Terrorists and Conversions to Radical Action: Emotional Factors and the Allure of ‘Jihadi Cool/Chic’ 4. ‘Violence is Difficult, Not Easy’: The Emotion Dynamics of Mass Atrocities Part 2: Punishment and Emotions 5. ‘45 Colour Photographs’: Images, Emotions and the Victim of Domestic Violence 6. Punitiveness and the Emotions of Punishment: Between Solidarity and Hostility 7. Capital Punishment and the Emotional Public Sphere in Mid-20th Century Britain Part 3: Doing Criminology as Emotion Work 8. Prison Life as ‘Emotion Culture’: Reflections on Some of the Emotional Challenges of Conducting Prison Ethnography 9. Witnessing, Responsibility and Spectatorship in the Aftermath of Violence: Reflections from Srebrenica 10. Death Justice: Navigating Contested Death in the Digital Age 11. ‘Feeling Criminology’: Learning from Emotions in Criminological Research Postscript: Concluding Thoughts: Some Lessons from Being ‘Liminal’