Rafe McGregor

About

Dr Rafe McGregor is Reader in Criminology in the Department of History, Geography, and Social Sciences at Edge Hill University. A critical theorist with research expertise in Anglophone culture, political violence, and policing, he is the author of twenty books, including: Reducing Political Violence: Narrative Accounts of Crime and Harm (2026), Anthropocide: An Essay in Green Cultural Criminology (2025), Recovering Police Legitimacy: A Radical Framework (2024), and Literary Theory and Criminology (2023). He is a fellow of Advance HE.

Work

Edge Hill University

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Academic, Reader in Criminology

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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University of Rijeka

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Visiting Lecturer

Croatia

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Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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Visiting Lecturer

Israel

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Leeds Trinity University

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Lecturer in Criminology

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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Bishop Burton College

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Lecturer in Policing

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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University of York

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Tutor

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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Education

University of Huddersfield

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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PGCE

University of York

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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PhD

University of York

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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MA

University of York

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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Graduate Diploma

University of South Africa

South Africa
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BA

Publications

Configuration

book-chapter

Counter

book-chapter

Culture

book-chapter

Style

book-chapter

Critique

book-chapter

Symbolism

book-chapter

Crisis

book-chapter

Story

book-chapter

Anthropocide

book

Anthropocide

book

Making Cultural Criticism Matter

International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique

journal-article

Cultures of Climate Change, Changes of Climate Cultures

journal-article

Making Cultural Criticism Matter

International Journal for the Semiotics of Law

journal-article

Recovering Police Legitimacy

book

Recovering Police Legitimacy

book

Autoethnography

book-chapter

Critical Case Studies

book-chapter

Los Angeles, 1947–1958

book-chapter

Practice, Institution, and Context

book-chapter

Public Protection and Police Legitimacy

book-chapter

Reviewing the Evidence

book-chapter

Southern California, 2013–2014

book-chapter

The Crisis of Police Legitimacy

book-chapter

The Radical Framework

book-chapter

West Yorkshire, 1980

book-chapter

An Epistemology of Criminological Cinema

Studies in Crime, Culture and Media

book

Social Science as a Kind of Writing

Croatian Journal of Philosophy

journal-article

Autoethnography

Routledge International Handbook of Police Ethnography

book-chapter

The World-Ecology of Climate Change Cinema

other

Violence is a Cleansing Force

Journal of Aesthetic Education

journal-article

Aesthetic Education through Narrative Art

Journal of Aesthetic Education

other

Dr Doyle's Doubles

other

Literary Theory and Criminology

New Directions in Critical Criminology

book

Carnival Row, Season 2

book-review

Children of Men

other

Narrative Counter-Terror: Deconstruction, Deliverance, and Debilitation

Terrorism and Political Violence

journal-article

Bill McClanahan: Visual Criminology

Critical Criminology

journal-article

Reading Ideas in Victorian Literature: Literary Content as Artistic Experience

The British Journal of Aesthetics

journal-article

The Complex Art of Murder

Journal of Aesthetic Education

journal-article

Analytic Aesthetics from Theory to Practice?

Etica e Politica

other

Critical Criminology and Literary Criticism

book

Response to Frauley, Simecek, Slugan, and Whitecross

Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Criminology

other

Four Characteristics of Policing as a Practice

Policing (Oxford)

journal-article

Literary Interventions in Justice

Estetika : The Central European Journal of Aesthetics

journal-article

Synopsis

Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Criminology

other

The Urban Zemiology of Carnival Row

Critical Criminology

journal-article

The Urban Zemiology of Carnival Row: Allegory, Racism and Revanchism

Critical Criminology

journal-article

A Literary Aesthetics of War Crime

Croatian Journal of Philosophy

journal-article

A Literary Aesthetics of War Crime

Croatian journal of philosophy

journal-article

A Criminology of Narrative Fiction

book

James Ellroy’s Critical Criminology: Crimes of the Powerful in the Underworld USA Trilogy

Critical Criminology

journal-article

Narrative Counter-Terror

Terrorism and Political Violence

journal-article

The Logic of Adventure

Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics

journal-article

Introduction to the Narrative Justice Symposium

The Journal of Aesthetic Education

journal-article

Replies to Critics

The Journal of Aesthetic Education

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Criminological Fiction: What is it Good For?

Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Criminology

journal-article

James Ellroy's Critical Criminology

Critical Criminology

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Towards a Deconstructed Curriculum: Rethinking Higher Education in the Global North

Teaching in Higher Education

journal-article

Narrative Justice

book

Cinematic Realism: A Defence from Plato to Gaut

The British Journal of Aesthetics

journal-article

Cinematic Realism: A Defence from Plato to Gaut

The British Journal of Aesthetics

journal-article

The Problem of Thick Representation

Contemporary Aesthetics

journal-article

The Person of the Torturer: Secret Policemen in Fiction and Non-Fiction

The Journal of Aesthetic Education

journal-article

Chapter 14: Blindness and Double Vision in Richard III: Zamir on Shakespeare on Moral Philosophy

The Routledge Companion to Shakespeare and Philosophy

book-chapter

The Ethical Value of Narrative Representation

Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology

journal-article

The Value of Literature

book

The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe Heather Mac Donald, 2016 New York: Encounter Books 248 pp., $23.99 (hb)

Journal of Applied Philosophy

journal-article

The Silence of the Night

Orbis Litterarum

journal-article

The silence of the night: Collaboration, deceit, and remorselessness

Orbis Litterarum

journal-article

Narrative Representation and Phenomenological Knowledge

Australasian Journal of Philosophy

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The Silence of the Night: Collaboration, Deceit, and Remorselessness

Orbis Litterarum

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The Silence of the Night: Collaboration, Deceit, and Remorselessness

journal-article

Narrative Representation and Phenomenological Knowledge

Australasian Journal of Philosophy

journal-article

Literary Thickness

The British Journal of Aesthetics

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The Work of Literature by Derek Attridge Oxford University Press | 2015 | ix + 324pp | isbn 9780198733195

Critical Quarterly

journal-article

Literary Thickness

The British Journal of Aesthetics

journal-article

Literary thickness

British Journal of Aesthetics

journal-article

Narrative Representation and Phenomenological Knowledge

Australasian Journal of Philosophy

journal-article

Film Worlds: A Philosophical Aesthetics of Cinema

The British Journal of Aesthetics

journal-article

Making Sense of Moral Perception

Ethical Theory and Moral Practice

journal-article

Making Sense of Moral Perception

Ethical Theory and Moral Practice

journal-article

Making Sense of Moral Perception

Ethical Theory and Moral Practice

journal-article

Narrative thickness

Estetika

journal-article

Narrative Thickness

Estetika: The Central European Journal of Aesthetics

journal-article

Minerva’s Night Out: Philosophy, Pop Culture, and Moving Pictures

The British Journal of Aesthetics

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Discourse and Defiance Under Nazi Occupation: Guernsey, Channel Islands, 1940-1945 by Cheryl R. Jorgensen-Earp, 2013 East Lansing, MI, Michigan State University Pressx + 300 pp., £47.50 (hb)

Journal of Applied Philosophy

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Introduction: The Analytic Engagement with Continental Philosophy

International Journal of Philosophical Studies

journal-article

Introduction: The analytic engagement with continental philosophy

International Journal of Philosophical Studies

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Technologies of Life and Death: From Cloning to Capital Punishment by Kelly Oliver, 2013 New York, Fordham University Pressxii + 262 pp., £18.99 (pb)

Journal of Applied Philosophy

journal-article

Poetic Thickness

The British Journal of Aesthetics

journal-article

Poetic thickness

British Journal of Aesthetics

journal-article

Poetic Thickness

The British Journal of Aesthetics

journal-article

A critique of the value interaction debate

British Journal of Aesthetics

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A Critique of the Value Interaction Debate

The British Journal of Aesthetics

journal-article

Cinematic philosophy: Experiential affirmation in Memento

Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism

journal-article

Cinematic Philosophy: Experiential Affirmation in Memento

The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism

journal-article

A New/Old Ontology of Film

Film-Philosophy

journal-article

A New/Old Ontology of Film

book

Moderate autonomism revisited

Ethical Perspectives

journal-article

Moderate Autonomism Revisited

Ethical Perspectives

journal-article

The Problem of Cinematic Representation

Contemporary Aesthetics

journal-article

Better No Longer to Be

South African Journal of Philosophy

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Better no longer to be

South African Journal of Philosophy

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Cinematic Realism Reconsidered

Polish Journal of Philosophy

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