This volume includes topics analysing the meaning of the Covid-19 pandemic and the social responses to it in various domains: from sex work to wildlife crimes, from new forms of social control in Brazil, Ecuador, Canada and Thailand to the role of music, the symbolism of face masks, the spreading of conspiracy theories, domestic violence, and more. It is composed of studies conducted by criminologists who belong to the ‘Utrecht school’. Criminology ‘Utrecht style’ is unique in the world in the sense that cultural, critical and global criminology are central to its research and teaching programme, ethnographic and netnographic methods are rigorously applied and further developed. The researches here presented – in all their variety, improvisation, and cross-pollination – contribute to the body of cultural criminological work, and go beyond. They explore themes and concepts underexposed in cultural criminology so far, and contribute to the further growth of this academic perspective through their combined understandings of crime and social reactions under extreme social circumstances.

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1 Introduction (Dina Siegel & Brenda Oude Breuil); Part I Isolation – facts and fiction; 2 Defaunation, wildlife exploitation and zoonotic diseases – A green criminological perspective (Daan van Uhm & Damián Zaitch); 3 Criminals without crime – The stigmatization of medical personnel during the Covid-19 pandemic in Cameroon (Dany Tiwa); 4 The phantom of the crisis – Fears and imaginaries behind the mask of the ‘Corona’ pandemic (Veronika Nagy); 5 Fake news and mediated representation of the Covid-19 crisis in Brazil – An infopandemic case (Paula Gil Larruscahim); 6 Domestic violence amid the intelligent lockdown in the Netherlands (Roos de Wildt & Majone Steketee); 7 Evolution of conspiracy theory – 5G riding the wave of Covid-19 (Elena Krsmanović & Anna Laskai); Part II Reactions to isolation: force and fight; 8 “I hate to be that person, but my neighbours …” – Covid-19 and the mobilization of informal social control through social media posts in Canada (Jorge Castaneda Ochoa); 9 Covid-19 pandemic note – State of emergency condemned as a political weapon (Jutathorn Pravattiyagul); 10 Sex work in New Zealand amid the Covid-19 crisis – Values and limitations of a decriminalized sex industry (Joep Rottier); 11 The struggle between pro-health and pro-economy – Approaches towards Covid-19 amidst the fight against corruption and the criminalization of politics in Ecuador (Byron Villagómez Moncayo); 12 The lockdown and the crackdown – Controlling the responsibilized body during a pandemic (Vassilis Gerasopoulos); 13 “The need is bigger than the fear” – Skin hunger, sexwork and stigma in quarantine times (Brenda Oude Breuil); 14 Covid-19 – the great equalizing purge – A critical examination of psychedelic perspectives on the coronavirus pandemic (Richard Alexander); 15 Amazing grace! The role of music in the Covid-19 pandemic (Dina Siegel); About the authors