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Telling ghost stories: Collateral consequences, haunting, and a criminology of fiction

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Crime, Media, Culture

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Abstract

Crime, Media, Culture, Volume 22, Issue 2, Page 310-326, April 2026.
In this paper we explore the potential of literary fiction to cultivate a more robust, rigorous, and creative criminological imagination. In particular, we initiate a dialogue between Tayari Jones’ 2018 novel An American Marriage and recent theoretical ...