This book discusses Stuart Hall's unique contribution to criminology. It suggests that this is captured best in Hall's commitment to understanding a given historical moment, or conjuncture, in its full complexity, and his continuous deployment of an appropriate methodology, conjunctural analysis, to do so. This provides a running thread linking Hall's early work on youth subcultures, the media, the state and hegemony to his later work on racial identities, racism and the politics of difference. This is contrasted with more theoretically-driven work in cultural criminology. Its failure to adopt a conjunctural approach constitutes, for the author, something of a missed moment. To demonstrate the continuing relevance of this form of analysis, the book provides a conjunctural analysis of Brexit, including its psychosocial dimension and concludes with a brief analysis of Trump's failure to get re-elected. The book is intended for students of criminology and cultural studies.

Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview

PART I: Stuart Hall and conjunctural analysis
Chapter 2: Conjunctural analysis part one: from early political writings to Resistance through Rituals
Chapter 3: Conjunctural analysis part two: the case of Policing the Crisis
PART II: Cultural criminology, Theorising and Stuart Hall
Chapter 4: Cultural criminology part one: the problems with a theory-driven methodology
Chapter 5: Cultural criminology part two: ethnography, carnival and the need for critique
Chapter 6: Hall's theorising: the importance of a principled eclecticism
PART III: Conjunctural Analysis Today: Brexit, Trump and the Politics of Difference
Chapter 7: Race, immigration and the politics of difference
Chapter 8: The Brexit conjuncture part one: the referendum result and how we got to 9/11
Chapter 9: The Brexit conjuncture part two: from 9/11 to the 2016 Referendum
Chapter 10: Conclusion: from Policing the Crisis to Trump, and beyond
PART IV: CODA
Chapter11: Hall, psychoanalysis and the problem of populist anger.