This distinctive and engaging book proposes an imaginative criminology, focusing on how spaces of transgression are lived, portrayed and imagined. These include spaces of control or confinement, including prison and borders, and spaces of resistance.

Examples range from camps where asylum seekers and migrants are confined, to the exploration of deviant identities and the imagined spaces of surveillance and control in young adult fiction. Drawing on oral history, fictive portrayals, walking methodologies, and ethnographic and arts-based research, the book pays attention to issues of gender, sexuality, age, ethnicity, mobility and nationality as they intersect with lived and imagined space.

Lizzie Seal is Reader in Criminology at University of Sussex. She researches in the areas of historical and cultural criminology.

Maggie O'Neill is Professor in Sociology at University College Cork. She is an ethnographer who researches in the areas of cultural criminology, critical theory/feminist theory, biographic, participatory and arts based/walking methods, specifically in relation to sex work and (forced) migration.