Cultural Criminology and the Carnival of Crime

by Mike Presdee; Mike Presedee; Gavin Carver

• ISBN13: 9780815334071
• ISBN10: 0815334079
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-05-01
• Publisher: Garland Publishing

Summary

Cultural Criminology and the Carnival of Crime attempts to make sense of the current increase in violence, cruelty, hate and humiliation, which has come to permeate daily life. The text argues that an overly organized economic world has provoked a widespread desire for extreme, oppositional forms of popular and personal pleasure. This desire has resulted in a cathartic 'second life' of illicit pleasures often deemed criminal by those in power. Amongst the exciting issues Mike Presdee addresses are: *joyriding*street crime*antisocial behavior in private via the internet*hate, hurt and humiliation in popular culture *the popularization and criminalization of sadomasochism and dance music cultures.

Author Biography

Mike Presdee is currently Reader in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at Sunderland University, and Visiting Senior Research Fellow in the Sociology Department at the University of Kent.

Table of Contents

Apologies	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Analysis	p. 13
Cultural criminology	p. 15
From carnival to the carnival of crime	p. 31
Commodification, consumption and crime	p. 57
Context	p. 67
Hurt, humiliation and crime as popular pleasure	p. 69
The criminalisation of consent: the case of SandM	p. 87
Rap and rave and the criminalisation of youth	p. 107
The carnival and the performing of crime: young people, knives and other weapons	p. 133
Senseless acts: the harbouring and harvesting of hate	p. 151
References	p. 165
Index	p. 177
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