Making Trouble: Cultural Constraints of Crime, Deviance, and Control

by Ferrell,Jeff

• ISBN13: 9780202306186
• ISBN10: 0202306186
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1999-04-30
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

In Making Trouble, leading scholars in criminology, sociology, criminal justice, women's studies, and social history explore the mediated cultural dynamics that govern image construction and understanding of a wide range of contemporary controversies (for instance, drug dealing, freight train graffi ti, anti-abortion violence, etc.). Edited within unifying central themes such as "situated media"; the evolution of policing and social control; and the gendered construction of crime, deviance, and control, Making Trouble marks a signifi cant expansion within this field.

Author Biography

Jeff Ferrell is Professor of Criminal Justice at Northern Arizona University Dr. Ferrell is the recipient of the 1998 Critical Criminologist of the Year Award presented by the Critical Criminology Division of the American Society of Criminology. Neil Websdale is Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at Northern Arizona University.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments	xiii
PART I INTRODUCTION
Materials for Making Trouble	3	(22)
Jeff Ferrell
Neil Websdale
PART II CONSTRUCTIONS OF HISTORY AND MYTH
The Elders Were Our Textbooks: The Importance of Traditional Stories in Social Control	25	(22)
Jon'a F. Meyer with
Gloria Bogdan
The Historical Roots of Tabloid TV Crime	47	(26)
Paul G. Kooistra
John S. Mahoney, Jr.
Dominant Ideology and Drugs in the Media	73	(18)
Craig Reinarman
Ceres Duskin
PART III CONSTRUCTIONS OF GENDER AND CRIME
Predators: The Social Construction of ``Stranger-Danger'' in Washington State as a Form of Patriarchal Ideology	91	(24)
Neil Websdale
Media Misogyny: Demonizing ``Violent'' Girls and Women	115	(26)
Meda Chesney-Lind
``The War Against Women'': Media Representations of Men's Violence Against Women in Australia	141	(16)
Adrian Howe
Detecting Masculinity	157	(22)
Gray Cavender
PART IV CONSTRUCTIONS OF SUBCULTURE AND CRIME
Wild Life: Constructions and Representations of Yardies	179	(24)
Karim Murji
Punky in the Middle: Cultural Constructions of the 1996 Montreal Summer Uprisings (A Comedy in Four Acts)	203	(28)
Lauraine Leblanc
Freight Train Graffiti: Subculture, Media, Dislocation	231	(24)
Jeff Ferrell
PART V CONSTRUCTIONS OF POLICING AND CONTROL
Reflections: The Visual as a Mode of Social Control	255	(22)
Peter K. Manning
Police Homicide Files as Situated Media Substrates: An Exploratory Essay	277	(26)
Neil Websdale
PART VI CONSTRUCTIONS OF CRIME AND TERRORISM
Jihad as Terrorism: The Western Media and the Defamation of the Qu'ran	303	(16)
Fida Mohammad
Fighting Terrorism As If Women Mattered: Anti-Abortion Violence as Unconstructed Terrorism	319	(30)
Philip Jenkins
PART VII CONCLUSIONS AND PROSPECTS
Taking the Trouble: Concluding Remarks and Future Directions	349	(16)
Neil Websdale
Jeff Ferrell
Biographical Sketches of the Contributors	365	(4)
Index	369