This timely book presents a carefully curated selection of essays to celebrate the career of Nigel South, Emeritus Professor at the Department of Sociology and Criminology of the University of Essex, and one of the leading figures in his field.

Eamonn Carrabine is Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Essex. His books include Crime in Modern Britain (co-authored, 2002); Power, Discourse and Resistance: A Genealogy of the Strangeways Prison Riot (2004); Crime, Culture and the Media (2008); and Crime and Social Theory (2017). He has published widely on media criminology, the sociology of punishment, and cultural theory. The textbook he co-authors with colleagues from the University of Essex, Criminology: A Sociological Introduction, is now in its fourth edition. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Criminology and is writing a book on the Iconography of Punishment.

Anna Di Ronco is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the Sociology Department of the University of Essex and Director for its Centre for Criminology. Her research critically addresses the dynamics of exclusion and penalisation in the public space as well as performative, visual, and mediated practices of resistance. Her books include Policing Environmental Protest: Power and Resistance in Pandemic Times (2023); Criminology: A Sociological Introduction (co-authored; 2020, 4th ed.); Harm and Disorder in the Urban Space: Social Control, Sense and Sensibility (co-edited; 2021); and Medical Misinformation and Social Harm in Non-Science Based Health Practices: A Multidisciplinary Perspective (co-edited; 2020).

Introduction: Celebrating the Career of Nigel South. 1. Policing for Profit: Nigel's Contribution to the Study of Private Policing and Security. 2. Drug Use Normalization and Surrealism. 3. Doing Drug Market Research Critically Through a Lens of Assumed Differentiation: 'Seeing' the 'Invisible'. 4. Unveiling Socio-economic Parallels: Exploring the Blurred Boundary Between Legality and Illegality. 5. Ecocidal Tendencies of Late Capitalism. 6. Food Politics and Controversial Technologies. 7. Criminology's Animal Turn. 8. Anthropocentrism, Speciesism and Speciecide. 9. Empathy Without Borders: Decolonial Criminology, Western Scholars, and Peer Methodology. 10. Scarcity, Conflict and Environmental Crime. 11. Ecologically Induced Genocide: A New Synthesis. 12. Conveying Environmental Harms Through Music: Some Directions for Green-cultural Criminology. 13. 'Life-stage Dissolution' ('adultification' and 'Infantilization') and the Right to Repair: Implications for Fixing this World. 14. This Feels Bad: Climate Change, Affect, and Sensory Criminology. 15. Grave Matters: Ghost Criminology, Necropolitics and the Anthropocene. Afterword: Connections, Directions, Horizons: Afterthoughts and Thank Yous.