Cultural Criminology Unleashed

by Ferrell; Jeff

• ISBN13: 9781904385370
• ISBN10: 1904385370
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 11/15/2004
• Publisher: Cavendish Pub Ltd

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 dtudents of criminology/sociology of deviance, penology and criminal justice, as well as cultural studies, qualitative research methods and sociology. Its editors and authors include the leading exponents of cultural criminology on both sides of the Atlantic.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	v
About the Contributors	vii
Fragments of a Manifesto: Introducing Cultural Criminology Unleashed	1	(12)
Jeff Ferrell
Keith Hayward
Wayne Morrison
Mike Presdee
Part 1 Theorising Crime, Culture, and Criminology
Voodoo Criminology and the Numbers Game	13	(16)
Jock Young
From Cultural Studies to Psychosocial Criminology: An Intellectual Journey	29	(12)
Tony Jefferson
The Story of Crime: Biography and the Excavation of Transgression	41	(8)
Mike Presdee
Phenomenology, Cultural Criminology and the Return to Astonishment	49	(12)
Jonathan Wender
Style Matters	61	(6)
Jeff Ferrell
Part 2 Across the Borders of Crime and Culture
Lombroso and the Birth of Criminological Positivism: Scientific Mastery or Cultural Artifice?	67	(14)
Wayne Morrison
Crime, Ethnicity and the Multicultural Administration of Justice	81	(16)
Frank Bovenkerk
Yucel Yesilgoz
Cultural Criminology and Engagement with Race, Gender and Post-colonial Identities	97	(12)
Chris Cunneen
Julie Stubbs
Crime, Media and Community: Grief and Virtual Engagement in Late Modernity	109	(12)
Chris Greer
Part 3 Marginal Images
Collisions of Culture and Crime: Media Commodification of Child Sexual Abuse	121	(12)
Karin Schofield
Cultural Constructions of the Hillbilly Heroin and Crime Problem	133	(10)
Kenneth D Tunnell
Criminalising Marginality and Resistance: Marilyn Manson, Columbine and Cultural Criminology	143	(12)
Stephen L Muzzatti
Part 4 Breaking Open the City
Space--The Final Frontier: Criminology, the City and the Spatial Dynamics of Exclusion	155	(12)
Keith Hayward
Scrunge City	167	(14)
Jeff Ferrell
The Desert of Imagination in the City of Signs: Cultural Implications of Sponsored Transgression and Branded Graffiti	181	(12)
Heitor Alvelos
`Crime Talk' and Crime Control in Contemporary Urban Japan	193	(14)
Mark Fenwick
Part 5 Terms of Engagement
Drug and Alcohol Research: The Case for Cultural Criminology	207	(12)
Fiona Measham
Crime, Culture and Visual Methodologies: Ethno-mimesis as Performative Praxis	219	(12)
Maggie O'Neill
Taking a Beating: The Narrative Gratifications of Fighting as an Underdog	231	(14)
Curtis Jackson-Jacobs
Stories from the Streets: Some Fieldwork Notes on the Seduction of Speed	245	(6)
Heli Vaaranen with
Mike Presdee
Part 6 Questions of Agency and Control
Speed Kills	251	(12)
Jeff Ferrell
What Happened to the Pathological Gang? Notes from a Case Study of the Latin Kings and Queens in New York	263	(12)
David C Brotherton
Barbarians at the Gate: Crime and Violence in the Breakdown of the Pseudo-pacification Process	275	(12)
Steve Hall
Simon Winlow
The USA Patriot Act and the Politics of Fear	287	(14)
Mark S Hamm
Index	301