| Description |
xiii, 321 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Fragments of a manifesto : introducing Cultural criminology unleashed / Jeff Ferrell ... [et al.] -- Voodoo criminology and the numbers game / Jock Young -- From cultural studies to psychosocial criminology : an intellectual journey / Tony Jefferson -- The story of crime : biography and the excavation of transgression / Mike Presdee -- Phenomenology, cultural criminology and the return to astonishment / Jonathan Wender -- Style matters / Jeff Ferrell -- Lombroso and the birth of criminological positivism : scientific mastery or cultural artifice? / Wayne Morrison -- Crime, ethnicity and the multicultural administration of justice / Frank Bovenkerk and Yucel Yesilg©œz -- Cultural criminology and engagement with race, gender and post-colonial identities / Chris Cunneen and Julie Stubbs -- Crime, media and community : grief and virtual engagement in late modernity / Chris Greer -- Collisions of culture and crime : media commodification of child sexual abuse / Karin Schofield ---Cultural constructions of the hillbilly heroin and crime problem / Kenneth D. Tunnell -- Criminalising marginality and resistance : Marilyn Manson, Columbine and cultural criminology / Stephen L. Muzzatti -- Space : the final frontier : criminology, the city and the spatial dynamics of exclusion / Keith Hayward -- Scrunge city / Jeff Ferrell -- The desert of imagination in the city of signs : cultural implications of sponsored transgression and branded graffiti / Heitor Alvelos -- 'Crime talk' and crime control in contemporary urban Japan / Mark Fenwick -- Drug and alcohol research : the case for cultural criminology / Fiona Measham -- Crime, culture and visual methodologies : ethno-mimesis as performative praxis / Maggie O'Neill -- Taking a beating : the narrative gratifications of fighting as an underdog / Curtis Jackson-Jacobs -- Stories from the streets : some fieldwork notes on the seduction of speed / Heli Vaaranen with Mike Presdee -- Speed kills / Jeff Ferrell ---What happened to the pathological gang? Notes from a case study of the Latin kings and queens in New York / David C. Brotherton -- Barbarians at the gate : crime and violence in the breakdown of the pseudo-pacification process / Steve Hall and Simon Winlow -- The USA Patriot Act and the politics of fear / Mark S. Hamm |
| Summary |
"This new title will become the core book on cultural criminology. Cultural Criminology Unleashed brings together cutting-edge research across the range of meanings of the term 'cultural' - from anthropology to art, from media analyses to theories of situated meaning. Global in scope, contributions take in the US, UK, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Japan." "A landmark text on the crime-culture nexus, Cultural Criminology Unleashed will be vital reading for academics as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students of criminology/sociology of deviance, penology and criminal justice, as well as cultural studies, media studies, qualitative research methods and sociology."--BOOK JACKET |
| Analysis |
Cultural criminology |
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Cultural criminology |
| Notes |
"The seeds of Cultural criminology unleashed were first sown at a small conference held at the University of London's Chancellor's Hall in the late spring of 2003"--Ack |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Also available online via the World Wide Web, by subscription to EBL (Ebook Library) |
| Subject |
Crime -- Sociological aspects.
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Criminology.
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Crime -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Criminology -- Congresses.
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Crime -- Sociological aspects -- Congresses.
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Crime -- Cross-cultural studies -- Congresses.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Ferrell, Jeff.
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Ebooks Corporation.
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International Conference on Cultural Criminology (1st : 2003 : London, England)
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| LC no. |
2005298231 |
| ISBN |
1904385370 paperback |
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