Cultural Criminology

by Ferrell, Jeff; Sanders, Clinton R.

• ISBN13: 9781555532369
• ISBN10: 1555532365
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-10-12
• Publisher: Northeastern Univ Pr

Summary

This pioneering collection of provocative essays focuses on collective behaviors organized around imagery, style, and symbolic meaning, and considers the ways in which legal and political authorities and the mass media construct these behaviors as criminal. Arguing for the development of a new cultural criminology, the contributors examine a wide range of social and cultural phenomena such as the politics of worldwide urban graffiti and the interplay of skinhead violence and musical style. On the cutting edge of contemporary theory, Cultural Criminology maps directions for further exploration in this emerging synthesis of criminological and cultural studies.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Part One: Introduction
Culture, Crime, and Criminology	3	(22)
Jeff Ferrell
Clinton R. Sanders
Part Two: Media, Representation, and Crime
Repetitive Retribution: Media Images and the Cultural Construction of Criminal Justice	25	(20)
Clinton R. Sanders
Eleanor Lyon
The Media and the Construction of Random Drug Violence	45	(21)
Henry H. Brownstein
The New Mythic Monster	66	(14)
Su C. Epstein
A Cultural Approach to Crime and Punishment, Bluegrass Style	80	(26)
Kenneth D. Tunnell
Electric Eye in the Sky: Some Reflections on the New Surveillance and Popular Culture	106	(36)
Gary T. Marx
Media, Crime, and Justice: A Case for Constitutive Criminology	142	(27)
Gregg Barak
Part Three: Sulculture, Style, and Crime
Style Matters: Criminal Identity and Social Control	169	(21)
Jeff Ferrell
Hammer of the Gods Revisited: Neo-Nazi Skinheads, Domestic Terrorism, and the Rise of the New Protest Music	190	(23)
Mark S. Hamm
Struggles Over the Symbolic: Gang Style and the Meanings of Social Control	213	(22)
Jody A. Miller
Squaring the One Percent: Biker Style and the Selling of Cultural Resistance	235	(42)
Stephen Lyng
Mitchell L. Bracey, Jr.
The World Politics of Wall Painting	277	(20)
Jeff Ferrell
Part Four: Conclusions and Prospects
Toward a Cultural Criminology	297	(30)
Jeff Ferrell
Clinton R. Sanders
References	327	(28)
Contributors	355	(4)
Index	359