Crime and Punishment in Contemporary Culture

ISBN-13: 9780415281751 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 192 str.

Claire Valier

Opis

The modern view of legal penalty is of a process concerned with the correction and rehabilitation of offenders. In Crime and Punishment in Contemporary Culture, Claire Valier argues that crime control and punishment in fact perform cultural work that is deeply entwined with our identities and notions of boundaries and belonging. Exploring both popular cultural forms and changes in crime policies and criminal law, Valier elaborates new modes of critical engagement with the politics of crime and punishment, and in particular with the return to retribution. In doing so, the book discusses: the shadow of the death penalty in post-abolition countries; the development of criminal detection technologies; the discourse on foreigners, crime and assimilation in the USA; and terror and the spectacle of violence.

Recenzje

'A thought provoking and timely contribution to the crime / media debate.' - Thames View 2005

Spis treści

Punishment, Culture and Communication 1. Murder Will Out 2. Punishment, Print Culture and the Nation 3. Travelling Cultures 4. Irony and the State of Unitedness 5. The Internet, New Collectivities and Crime 6. Punishment and the Powers of Horror 7. The Shadow of the Death Penalty Addressing the Contemporary Bibliography

O autorze

Claire Valier is Lecturer in Law at the University of London and a graduate of Queens' College, Cambridge. Her other works include Theories of Crime and Punishment (2001).