Cultural Criminology and the Carnival of Crime

Informationen zum Autor Mike Presdee Klappentext This text provides a perspective on the relationship between culture and crime which introduces the idea of "cultural criminology"! and examines how it can be applied to criminal and criminalized activity. Zusammenfassung This book attempts to make sense of the current increase in violence, cruelty, hate and humiliation, arguing that an overly organised economic world has provoked desire for extreme forms of popular and personal pleasure. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction 2. Cultural Criminology 3. From Carnival to the Carnival of Crime (with Gavin Carter) 4. Commodification! Consumption and Crime 5. Hurt! Humiliation and Crime as Popular Pleasure 6. The Criminalisation of Consent: The case of S&M 7. Rap and Rave and the Criminalisation of Youth 8. The Carnival and the Performing of Crime: Young people! knives and other weapons 9. Senseless Acts: The harbouring and harvesting of hate

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• Authors: Gavin Carter, Mike Presdee, Mike (University of Kent Presdee, Presdee Mike
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.11.2000
• EAN: 9780415239103
• ISBN: 978-0-415-23910-3
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Sociology, LAW / Criminal Law / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, Society & culture: general, LAW / Criminal Procedure, Society and culture: general