Cultural Criminology and the Carnival of Crime

ISBN-13: 9780415239103 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 192 str.

Mike Presdee; Gavin Carter

Opis

This publication examines the criminalization of cultural practices in contemporary Britain. By examining a range of criminalized cultural activities, including dog fighting, tunnel and tree dwellers, rave subcultures and joy-riding, the book reworks the notion of the senseless act and explores the performance of actual crime and violence as cultural commodity to be consumed as entertainment by a society anxious for new and more exciting experiences.

Spis treści

1. Introduction 2. Cultural Criminology 3. From Carnival to the Carnival of Crime (with Gavin Carter) 4. Commodification, Consumption and Crime 5. Hurt, Humiliation and Crime as Popular Pleasure 6. The Criminalisation of Consent: The case of S&M 7. Rap and Rave and the Criminalisation of Youth 8. The Carnival and the Performing of Crime: Young people, knives and other weapons 9. Senseless Acts: The harbouring and harvesting of hate

O autorze

Mike Presdee