Imaginative Criminologies of Space: the Spaces of Imaginative Criminology

This chapter outlines the book’s conceptualisation of imaginative criminology as encompassing attention to fictional and visual representations of crime and transgression, as well as gaining insights via creative, biographical, and ethnographic participatory methodologies. It defines and discusses ‘the imaginary’ and ‘transgression’ and highlights the particular focus on the spaces of transgression. The chapter discusses how space is understood and conceptualised in the book as relationally constructed and affectively significant, as well as an outcome of unequal relations of power.