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Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction: Police Story, Horror Story -- Chapter 1: Bad Cops and True Detectives -- Chapter 2: The Police at the End of the World, or The Political Theology of the Thin Blue Line -- Chapter 3: RoboCop, or Modern Prometheus -- Chapter 4: Monsters Are Real -- Chapter 5: The Unthinkable World -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author.

"Drawing on the language and texts of horror fiction, Travis Linnemann recasts the police not only as self-proclaimed "monster fighters" but as monsters themselves, a terrifying force set loose in the world. The Horror of Police shows that police violence is not a deviation but rather a deliberate and permanent fixture of U.S. "law and order.""--

"From the hit television series Breaking Bad, to daily news reports, anti-drug advertising campaigns and highly publicized world-wide hunts for 'narcoterrorists' such as Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman, the drug, methamphetamine occupies a unique and important space in the public's imagination. In Meth Wars, Travis Linnemann situates the 'meth epidemic' within the broader culture and politics of drug control and mass incarceration. Linnemann draws together a range of examples and critical interdisciplinary scholarship to show how methamphetamine, and the drug war more generally, are part of a larger governing strategy that animates the politics of fear and insecurity and links seemingly unrelated concerns such as environmental dangers, the politics of immigration and national security, policing tactics, and terrorism. The author's unique analysis presents a compelling case for how the supposed 'meth epidemic' allows politicians, small town police and government counter-narcotics agents to engage in a singular policing project in service to the broader economic and geostrategic interests of the United States"--Provided by publisher

"Bringing together prominent early contributions from this emergent perspective, the volume traces the origins, theory and methodology of a nascent ghost criminology. From the powers of exorcism and erasure marshaled by state agents, street-level struggles over memorialization and memory, to the lingering violence of crime scenes and the ghostly traces of outlaw artists, Ghost Criminology is a book attuned to that which is well-theorized in other disciplines-the spectral, hauntological, apparitional. Each of the writers assembled here shares, as Mark Fisher (2017) put it, a fascination for the outside, "that which lies beyond standard perception, cognition and experience." As such, this collection uses cutting-edge social and cultural theory to tangle with some of criminology's most stubborn revenants-the politics of criminalization, the commodification of crime and violence, the haunting power of the image, as well as the unheard and disregarded cries of the dead"--

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Ghost Criminology: A (Spirit) Guide -- Part I. Apparitions and the (In)visible -- 1. After the Fact: Spectral Evidence, Cultural Haunting, and Gothic Sensibility -- 2. Ghost Method -- 3. The Specter of White Supremacy: Fugitive Justice and the Dead Body of US Racialized Politics -- 4. From Optograms to X-Rays: How to Conjure a Spectral Criminological Image -- Part II. The Necrotic and (In)corporeal -- 5. (Dis)Posing of "Toxic Necro-Waste": Managing Unwanted Ghosts -- 6. Destroyed Records -- 7. Police: The Weird and Eerie -- 8. "Dripping from Head to Toe with Blood": Suffocation, Tentacles, Police, and Capital -- Part III. Dead and Haunted Spaces -- 9. The Time of Ghosts: Sites of Violence, Environments of Memory -- 10. Dark Diffractions: A Performative Hauntology of 10 Rillington Place -- 11. Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? Cheap Motel Rooms and Transgression -- 12. Excavating Ghosts: Urban Exploration as Graffiti Archaeology -- Ghost Criminology: A Requiem -- About the Contributors -- About the Editors -- Index