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This volume is published as Volume 14 in the series, Sociology of Crime, Law, and Deviance.
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Published by Emerald Group Publishing (Bingley, UK), 2010.
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Published by Emerald Group Publishing (Bingley, UK), 2010.
SYNOPSIS
This volume contains contributions on the theme of popular culture, crime, and social control. The chapters in this volume tease out various criminologically relevant issues, pertaining to crime/deviance and/or the control thereof, on the basis of an analysis of various aspects and manifestations of popular culture, including music, movies, television, paintings, sculptures, photographs, cartoons, and the internet-based audio-visual materials that are presently available. Thematically diverse within the province of criminology, the chapters in this book are not restricted in terms of theoretical approach and methodological orientation. Using a variety of methodological and theoretical perspectives, the volume is diverse in addressing dimensions of popular culture in relation to important criminological questions.
This volume appears as Volume 14 in the series Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction: The Criminology of Popular Culture [online copy]
Mathieu Deflem
Reefer Madness and Beyond
Susan Boyd
The Dark Knight: Constructing Images of Good vs. Evil in an Age of Anxiety
Nickie D. Phillips
Superhero Justice: The Depiction of Crime and Justice in Modern-Age Comic Books and Graphic Novels
Bradford W. Reyns and Billy Henson
Televised Images of Jail: Lessons in Controlling the Unruly
Dawn K. Cecil
“I Broke the Law? No, the Law Broke Me!” Palestinian Hip-Hop and the Semiotics of Occupation
Judah Schept
Rap Music’s Violent and Misogynistic Effects: Fact or Fiction?
Charis E. Kubrin and Ronald Weitzer
Crime Resistance and Song: Black Musicianship Is Black Criminology
Viviane Saleh-Hanna
The Different Sounds of American Protest: From Freedom Songs to Punk Music
Ellen C. Leichtman
Evil Monsters and Cunning Perverts: Representing and Regulating the Dangerous Paedophile
Anneke Meyer
Framing the Scene: Presentations of Forensic Programming in the News
Gregory Justis and Steven Chermak
Beach Crime in Popular Culture: Confining the Carnivalesque in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil
Stephanie C. Kane
Here Be Dragons: Lombroso, the Gothic, and Social Control
Nicole Rafter and Per Ystehede
AVAILABILITY
This book is now available as a PDF file!
Physical copies of this book can be found in online stores and via resellers.
This volume appears as Volume 14 in the series Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction: The Criminology of Popular Culture [online copy]
Mathieu Deflem
PART I: CRIME AND SOCIAL CONTROL IN THE VISUAL ARTS
Reefer Madness and Beyond
Susan Boyd
The Dark Knight: Constructing Images of Good vs. Evil in an Age of Anxiety
Nickie D. Phillips
Superhero Justice: The Depiction of Crime and Justice in Modern-Age Comic Books and Graphic Novels
Bradford W. Reyns and Billy Henson
Televised Images of Jail: Lessons in Controlling the Unruly
Dawn K. Cecil
PART II: RESISTANCE, CRIME, AND PROTEST IN MUSIC
“I Broke the Law? No, the Law Broke Me!” Palestinian Hip-Hop and the Semiotics of Occupation
Judah Schept
Rap Music’s Violent and Misogynistic Effects: Fact or Fiction?
Charis E. Kubrin and Ronald Weitzer
Crime Resistance and Song: Black Musicianship Is Black Criminology
Viviane Saleh-Hanna
The Different Sounds of American Protest: From Freedom Songs to Punk Music
Ellen C. Leichtman
PART III: CRIME AND JUSTICE IN NON-FICTION
Evil Monsters and Cunning Perverts: Representing and Regulating the Dangerous Paedophile
Anneke Meyer
Framing the Scene: Presentations of Forensic Programming in the News
Gregory Justis and Steven Chermak
Beach Crime in Popular Culture: Confining the Carnivalesque in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil
Stephanie C. Kane
Here Be Dragons: Lombroso, the Gothic, and Social Control
Nicole Rafter and Per Ystehede
AVAILABILITY
This book is now available as a PDF file!
Physical copies of this book can be found in online stores and via resellers.
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