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Rafe McGregor
Through an examination of Alfonso Cuaron's Children of Men, this book demonstrates the ability of cinematic fictions, and other complex narrative fictions, to contribute to meeting the climate challenge by…
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Recovering Police Legitimacy challenges conventional criminological, political, and public solutions to the problem of legitimacy. Written accessibly for students, police officers, policymakers, scholars, and anyone with an interest in police…
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David Grcki, Rafe McGregor
Standing at the intersection of criminology and philosophy, this book demonstrates the ways in which mythic movies and television series can provide understanding of actual crimes and social harms.
Literary Theory and Criminology demonstrates the significance of contemporary literary theory to the discipline of criminology, particularly to those criminologists who are primarily concerned with questions of power, inequality, and…
Roderick Langham is a retired soldier, disgraced police inspector, and reluctant occult detective. He inhabits the world of Sherlock Holmes, investigates cases with John Watson and Sebastian Moran, and is…
The Value of Literature provides an original and compelling argument for the historical and contemporary significance of literature to humanity.
This important new book provides an original and compelling argument for a new theory of aesthetic education. Rafe McGregor proposes a model of interdisciplinary inquiry, applying a combined philosophical and…
Rafe McGregor (Edge Hill University)
Drawing on complex narratives across film, TV, novels and graphic novels, this authoritative critical analysis demonstrates the value of fictional narratives as a tool for understanding, explaining and reducing crime…
Establishing a new interdisciplinary methodology, ‘criminological criticism’, Rafe McGregor proposes a model for collaboration between literary studies and critical criminology that is beneficial to the humanities, the social sciences and…
John Greenwood,Rafe McGregor
This issue features fiction from many previous contributors to the zine, who have returned to help celebrate fifty issues and ten years of Theaker’s Quarterly Fiction: Antonella Coriander, David Tallerman…
Stephen Theaker
Issue fifty-seven of Theaker’s Quarterly Fiction is one hundred and sixty-eight pages long, and features five tales of fantasy, horror and science fiction: The Elder Secret’s Lair by Rafe McGregor…
Theaker’s Quarterly Fiction #60 contains five stories: The Lost Testament by Rafe McGregor, Turning Point by Nicki Robson, Yttrium, Part One by Douglas Thompson, Amongst the Urlap by Andrew Peters…
TQF59 contains seven short stories: The Devil’s Hollow by Rafe McGregor, Give You a Game? by Michael Wyndham Thomas, The Baby Downstairs by Jessy Randall, The Constant Providers by Charles…
