Rafe McGregor is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Edge Hill University, prior to which he spent fifteen years in the police and the prison service.
This is a must read for all those who suspect that crime fiction and related narratives are, very often, at least as insightful as academic work in criminology. Ronnie Lippens, formerly Keele University McGregor's massively skilled and imaginative synthesis of theories and paradigms - narrative and more - is the best kind of contemporary criminology. Lois Presser, University of Tennessee By showing how knowledge may derive from narrative fictions, McGregor redefines the boundaries of criminology. This is a daring book which criminologists would wish to explore. Tzachi Zamir, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem