3. The Specter of White Supremacy: Fugitive Justice and the Dead Body of US Racialized Politics

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Ghost Criminology: A (Spirit) Guide 1
4. Part I. Apparitions and the (In)visible
5. 1. After the Fact: Spectral Evidence, Cultural Haunting, and Gothic Sensibility 35
6. 2. Ghost Method 67
7. 3. The Specter of White Supremacy: Fugitive Justice and the Dead Body of US Racialized Politics 88
8. 4. From Optograms to X-Rays: How to Conjure a Spectral Criminological Image 110
9. Part II. The Necrotic and (In)corporeal
10. 5. (Dis)Posing of “Toxic Necro-Waste”: Managing Unwanted Ghosts 135
11. 6. Destroyed Records 155
12. 7. Police: The Weird and Eerie 180
13. 8. “Dripping from Head to Toe with Blood”: Suffocation, Tentacles, Police, and Capital 202
14. Part III. Dead and Haunted Spaces
15. 9. The Time of Ghosts: Sites of Violence, Environments of Memory 227
16. 10. Dark Diffractions: A Performative Hauntology of 10 Rillington Place 253
17. 11. Who’s Been Sleeping in My Bed? Cheap Motel Rooms and Transgression 280
18. 12. Excavating Ghosts: Urban Exploration as Graffiti Archaeology 307
19. Ghost Criminology: A Requiem 337
20. About the Contributors 345
21. About the Editors 349
22. Index 351