Ronnie Lippens: The Image of the Line: Palgrave Pioneers in Criminology

Ronnie Lippens retired from academia in 2019, as Professor of Criminology at Keele University, after a career of 26 years in Belgium and England. His published oeuvre, supervision, and teaching made a signal contribution to criminology, critical criminology, and the fields typically referred to as: theoretical criminology, sensory criminology, visual criminology, penology, cultural criminology, and the criminology of war. Lippens’ innovation in these fields and to the discipline more broadly is his capacity for the effortless synthesis of social scientific study with philosophical insight and his ability to communicate the complexity of that synthesis – which draws on the paradigms of phenomenology, existentialism, psychoanalysis, and poststructuralism – to a wide variety of audiences. This book introduces three decades of Lippens’ research and writing and is written by six academics with international reputations of their own who are all former colleagues of Lippens and selected from England, Italy, and Brazil across the disciplines of criminology, sociology, philosophy, and legal studies.