Lacan for Criminologists

Zemiology, Ultra-Realism, and Harm Reduction
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-032-97514-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 98 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm

This book provides a clear and concise introduction to the work of French cultural icon Jacques Lacan (1901–1981) for criminologists, sociologists, and social theorists. The authors approach Lacan as a structuralist rather than a psychoanalyst or psychiatrist, exploring his perspective on the relationships among being, agency, meaning, and structure; his construction of subjectivity; and his register theory, constituted by the Real, the Imaginary, and the Symbolic.

The book begins with an analysis and evaluation of the only substantive criminological deployment of Lacan’s philosophy to date, in the ultra-realist framework developed by Steve Hall, Simon Winlow, and Thomas Raymen. The strengths of this framework suggest that Lacan’s work has even more relevance to crime and harm in the digital age than it did in the 20th century. Lacan for Criminologists picks up where ultra-realism leaves off, engaging directly with Lacan’s Écrits and seminars to demonstrate their value to a critical criminology that is theory-led, evidence-based, and zemiologically-focused.

This book will be fascinating reading for cultural, critical, and ultra-realist criminologists, as well as students and scholars of sociology, cultural studies, and social theory.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

McGregor, Rafe

Grcki, David

Lalic, Ema

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction 2 Ultra-Realist Criminology 3 Lacan’s Register Theory 4 The Lacanian Subject 5 Lacan in Ultra-realism 6 A Lacanian Zemiology 7 Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Rafe McGregor is Reader in Criminology at Edge Hill University in Lancashire, UK. He is the author of 20 books, including Reducing Political Violence: Narrative Accounts of Crime and Harm (2026), Anthropocide: An Essay in Green Cultural Criminology (2025), and Recovering Police Legitimacy: A Radical Framework (2024).

David Grcki is a senior assistant in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Rijeka, Croatia. His research focuses on logic, the philosophy of logic, and the philosophy of narrative arts. He is the co-author (with Rafe McGregor) of An Epistemology of Criminological Cinema (2024).

Ema Lalic is a research assistant at the Department of Philosophy, University of Rijeka, Croatia. She is currently writing her dissertation on the value of philosophy. Her other interests include philosophy of language and philosophy of literature.