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Title Crime, deviance and popular culture : international and multidisciplinary perspectives / Dimitris Akrivos, Alexandros K. Antoniou, editors
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]

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Series Palgrave studies in crime, media and culture
Palgrave studies in crime, media and culture.
Contents Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; Notes on Contributors; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1: Introduction: Crime and Deviance through the Lens of Popular Culture; References; Part I: The Twenty-First-Century Fictional Detective; 2: Deviant Detectives in the Scandinavian Welfare State: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Bridge; Introduction; The Rise of the Deviant Detective in the Post-Welfare State; Nordic Narratives of Proximity; Diagnosing The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo; The Crime Novel and the Autism 'Epidemic'; Diagnosing Saga Norén; Conclusion; References
3: The Representation of Crime and Criminals in the TV Series Sherlock and Elementary: A Corpus StudyIntroduction; Sherlock Holmes: A Diachronic Cultural Hero; Data and Methodology; Keywords in Sherlock and Elementary; The Field of Crime in Sherlock and Elementary; Criminals and Victims; The Criminal and Criminal Types; Criminal Groups; Discussion; Conclusion; Appendix; References; 4: Person of Interest or Crime and Surveillance on Post-9/11 Network TV; Person of Interest: the Ambiguities of Crime and Surveillance; AI-ing Surveillance Studies-The Person of Interest Edition
Televisual ContextsConclusion; References; Part II: Negotiating Gender Expectations and Sexual Mores through Popular Culture; 5: A Televised Social Problem Construction? Pushing Back Against the Invisibility of the Male Rape Victim in American Crime; From Reality to Representation and Back: The Rise of 'Socially Aware' Television; A Televised Social Problems Construction?; A Symbolic Annihilation of Male Rape Victims?; Methodology; Analysis; Victim Blaming and 'Female Rape' Domain Expansion; Cycle of Violence; Institutional Failure and Vigilante Justice; Discussion; Concluding Remarks
The Sexual Market and Avoiding Social BulimiaSexual Agency; Discussion; Conclusion; References; Episodes; Part III: True Crime and the Quest for Justice; 8: Wrongful Conviction, Pop Culture, and Achieving Justice in the Digital Age; Introduction; Wrongful Convictions and Media; Serial; Making a Murderer; Fan-Production, Websleuthing, and Wrongful Conviction; Wrongful Convictions, Media, and the Digital Age: Is Justice Being Achieved?; Conclusion; References; 9: Aftermath: The True Crime Memoir Comes of Age; Introduction; Jo Ann Beard's 'The Fourth State of Matter'
Summary This book explores the links between crime, deviance and popular culture in our highly-mediatised era, offering an insight into the cultural processes through which particular practices acquire a criminal or deviant status, and come to be seen as social problems. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, the edited collection brings together international scholars across various areas of specialisation to provide an up-to-date analysis of some important and topical issues in 21st-century popular culture. The chapters look at different aspects of popular culture, including fictional detective narratives and the true crime genre, popular media constructions of sexual deviance and Islamophobia, sports, graffiti and outlaw biker subcultures. The authors examine a wide range of relevant case studies through a number of crime and deviance-related theories. Crime, Deviance and Popular Culture will be of importance to scholars and students across several disciplines, including criminology, sociology of deviance, social anthropology, media studies, cultural studies, television studies and linguistics
Bibliography References6: The 'Cool Girl' Strikes Back? A Socio-Legal Analysis of Gone Girl; Introduction; The Backlash Phenomenon; Gone Girl as a Backlash Project; Gone Girl as a Feminist Project; Conclusion; References; 7: Neoliberal Enticements, Neoliberal Dangers: An Ethnographic Content Analysis of Everyday Sexuality in Fresh Meat, Greek, and Sweet Vicious; Introduction; Neoliberalism and Everyday Sexuality: Enticements, Dangers, and Pop Culture; Methods; Results: Sexual Markets and Agency; University as a Sexual Market; The Sexual Market as a Sexual Field
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Subject Crime -- Sociological aspects.
Deviant behavior -- Social aspects
Crime in popular culture.
Religious groups: social & cultural aspects.
Sociology.
Popular culture.
Crime & criminology.
Social Science -- Sociology of Religion.
Social Science -- Media Studies.
Social Science -- Popular Culture.
Social Science -- Criminology.
Crime in popular culture
Crime -- Sociological aspects
Deviant behavior -- Social aspects
Form Electronic book
Author Akrivos, Dimitris, editor
Antoniou, Alexandros K., editor
ISBN 9783030049126
3030049124