A Song of Ice and Fire (novels of George R. R. Martin)

, 43–44

Absence

, 4–5, 12–14, 60–61, 71, 92, 98–99

Academic research

, 2–3

Aetiology

, 8–9, 79–80

Avengers

, 2–4, 19, 22, 27

Becoming process

, 25

Beingness

, 21

Bhaskar, R.

, 11–14

Breaking Bad

, 25

Capitalism

, 32, 56–57

symbolic law

, 35

technical laws of

, 34–35

Capitalist realism

, 27, 75–76

Causation

, 79–80

Climate change

, 51–53, 56–57, 106–107

‘Civilising process’

, 31–32

Cobalt

, 43

Competitive individualism

, 26–27, 31, 36–37, 39, 56, 92, 106

Conformity

, 73–75

Consumer

capitalism

, 75

culture

, 67–68

spending

, 67

Consumerism

, 67–68

‘Controlology’

, 8–9

COVID-19 pandemic

, 99

Crime

, 9

‘direct expression’ theories of

, 12–13

‘Crime decline’

, 15–16

‘Criminal undertaker’

, 80–81, 84–85

Criminogenic

, 19, 22, 27, 39, 92

Criminological atrophy

, 8–11

Criminological theory

, 1–3, 11–12

Criminology

, 8, 11, 19

Critical criminology

, 91

Critical hate studies

, 92–93

Critical realism

, 11–14

Critical theory

, 92

Cultural criminology

, 2–3

Cultural-historical theory

, 31

Day the Earth Stood Still, The

, 55, 57, 60

Dead Man’s Chest

, 32, 38

‘Deaptation’

, 15, 22

Degrees of assimilation

, 48–52

Deindustrialisation

, 98

Democratisation of objective violence

, 34

‘Denaturalisation’

, 21

Depth structures

, 12–13

Desire

, 4–5, 15–16, 19–20, 23–26, 33, 35–37, 39–40, 56–58, 61, 70, 73, 95–96, 106–107

Desiring subject

, 70

‘Deviant’ behaviour

, 69–70

Deviant leisure

, 68–70, 74–75, 91, 95, 102, 106

Disavowal

, 47–48

Divine Comedy, The

, 55

Domain assumptions

, 8

Dream myth

, 49–52

Drives

, 16–17, 19–20, 26–27, 33–36, 38, 57–58, 80

Dupuy, J.P.

, 4, 55, 57, 59, 61–64, 106–107

Ellis, A.

, 1–2, 13, 22, 31–32, 59, 72–73, 79–80, 82, 84, 88, 92–93, 99

Emotivism

, 57–58, 98–99, 106

‘Enlightened catastrophism’

, 4, 59, 63

Envy

, 26–27, 31, 39, 56

Expressive violence

, 83

Faking civility

, 31–33

‘False consciousness’

, 46

Fatalism

, 59

Feminist criminology

, 10

Fetishistic disavowal

, 43–44, 47, 59, 95

degrees of assimilation

, 48–52

rethinking ideology

, 46–48

uncomfortable truths

, 44–46

Fight Club

, 4–5, 68, 70

first rule of

, 73–75

lack, desire and libidinal energy

, 70–73

Gambling

, 1–2, 69–70, 95–96, 107–108

Game of Thrones

, 4, 43–44, 47–49, 51, 95

‘Good’, theory of

, 98

‘Green consumption’

, 59

Guilt

, 86–87

Hall, S.

, 1, 7–9, 11–12, 15–16, 19–23, 27, 31–32, 34–37, 39–40, 43–47, 49, 61, 68, 72–73, 79–80, 84, 94, 96–97, 105–106

Harry Potter

, 43–46

Historical materialism

, 46

Human subjectivity

, 21

‘Hydraulic process’

, 33–34

Hyper-conformity

, 36

Identity

, 67–71, 73–74

Ideology, rethinking

, 46–48

Image and Performance Enhancing Drugs (IPEDs)

, 74

Imaginary

, 21

Indiana Jones (films)

, 31, 34–35, 108–109

Inferno (film)

, 4, 55, 57–58

Infinity War

, 25

Instrumentalism

, 36–37, 40

Integrated approach

, 97–98

Interpassivity

, 57

Intra-class crime

, 14

Johnston, A.

, 7, 20–22, 86–87

Joker (film)

, 107–108

Jouissance

, 73, 87

Labelling theory

, 9–10

Lacan, J.

, 4–5, 14, 73

Lacanian-Žižekian framework

, 21

Lack

, 4–5, 15, 23, 52, 57, 70, 73, 102–103

Layers of reality

actual

, 12

empirical

, 12

real

, 12

Left realism

, 10–11

Liberal-capitalism

, 31–32, 34

Liberal-postmodernism

, 23

Libidinal energy

, 70–73

Lifestyle

drugs

, 96

gamblers

, 95–96

gambling

, 69–70

Lockdown policies

, 68

Marginalised masculine identities

, 92–93

Materiality

, 20–21

Matrix, The

, 3

McGowan, T.

, 15, 70–71

Motivation

negative

, 98–99

positive

, 98–99, 106

Negativity

, 56

Neoliberalism

, 22, 26–27, 56–57, 69–70, 106

Night-time economy

, 69–70, 94

Objective violence

, 34, 37–38

Objectless anxiety

, 92

Online streaming

, 67

Ontology

, 20–21

Orderly disorder

, 15–16, 33

Order of the Phoenix, The

, 49

Over-identification

, 36

Overpopulation

, 57–58, 63

Pacification

, 33–35

Pirates of the Caribbean (films)

, 25, 31, 35, 39

‘Pop-criminology’

, 2–3

Positivism

, 8–9

‘Post-coronavirus’

, 61

Postmodernism

, 27

Probabilistic causal tendency

, 12, 106, 109

Probability

, 33–34

Proenvironmental behaviours

, 57–58

‘Project Mayhem’

, 68–69

Promise

, 62, 71, 95–96

Pseudo-activity

, 61–62

Pseudo-pacification process

, 2–4, 15–16, 31–33, 93–94

breakdown of

, 37–39

Psychopathy

, 81

Purge, The (films)

, 107–108

Raiders of the Lost Ark

, 34–35

Ray Donovan (US TV series)

, 4–5, 79–80

background of violence

, 81–85

making sense of trauma

, 85–88

situating violent men

, 80–81

Raymen, T.

, 1–2, 12–13, 19–20, 26, 33, 56–58, 67, 69–70, 73, 75, 91, 95, 98–99, 107, 110

‘Reality’

, 9

Reasoned optimism

, 64

Registers of reality

, 21

Imaginary

, 21, 94

Real

, 21

Symbolic Order

, 21, 94

Reversion process

, 26

Revitalizing Criminological Theory

, 62–63

Right realism

, 10–11

Routine Activity Theory

, 8–9

Salazar’s Revenge

, 32

Self-interest

, 3–4, 21–22, 31, 56, 106

Serial murder

, 94, 105–106

Situational crime prevention

, 8–9

Social constructionism

, 9

Social harm

, 91

Social inequality

, 67

Social solidarity

, 37

Sociological theorisation

, 11–12

Sociopathy

, 81

‘Solicitation of the trap’

, 23

Sopranos, The

, 84–85

Special liberty

, 7, 16–17, 35, 37, 108–109

‘Square of crime’

, 10–11

Stalled dialectic

, 8–11

Stimulation

, 33–35

Stoic masculinity

, 82–83

Strain theory

, 8–9

Subjective violence

, 34, 37–38

Subjectivisation

, 23

Superego

, 72–73

Supply chain crisis

, 67

Symbolic efficiency

, 72–73

Symbolic law

, 35

Symbolic Order

, 15, 21, 26–27, 31, 70–71, 92, 94, 106

Technical laws of capitalism

, 34–35

Teesside

, 98

Telford, L.

, 1–2, 11–12, 98

‘Threshold concepts’

, 101

‘Toughening up’ process

, 82–83

Transcendental materialism

, 2–4, 15, 19, 21, 93

new theory of subjectivity

, 20, 22, 70

Trauma, making sense of

, 85–88

True crime

, 79–80, 94

Ultra-realism

, 1–5, 7–9, 59, 63, 67–70, 79–80, 91, 105–106

applying

, 92–100

components of

, 14–17

criminological atrophy

, 8–11

making sense of

, 100–102

Ultron

, 24–25

Unconscious

, 4–5, 15, 21, 47, 70, 86–87

Violence

background of

, 81–85

expressive

, 83

instrumental

, 13, 83

objective

, 34, 40

subjective

, 34, 40

ultra-realist theory of

, 79–80

Violent subjectivity

, 4–5, 25

‘Visual learner’

, 101

Winlow, S.

, 1, 7–12, 14, 17, 20–21, 24–25, 31–32, 34, 38, 40, 43–44, 55, 64, 69–70, 79–84, 88, 95, 105–106

Wolf of Wall Street, The (film)

, 107–108

Žižek, S.

, 4, 15, 21, 23, 34, 37–38, 43–44, 47, 56–57, 61–62, 69, 86–87