Criminal Identities and Consumer Culture : Crime, Exclusion and the New Culture of Narcissm

ISBN-13: 9781843922568 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 264 str.

Steve Hall; Simon Winlow

Opis

Offers an in-depth investigation into the nature of criminal identities. Using data taken from criminals locked in lower class locations, this book aims to uncover feelings and attitudes towards a variety of criminal activities. It is of interest to underg

Spis treści

Preface 1. Introduction: the return to motivation 2. Life on the precipice: economic change and acute marginalisation 3. Consumption and identification: some insights into desires and motivations 4. Criminal biographies: two case studies 5. Consumerism and the counterculture 6. Critical reflections on the intellectual roots on port-war criminological theory 7. Myths of exclusion and resistance: a critique of some current thinking on crime and culture 8. Consumerism, narcissism and the reorientation of the Western super-ego 9. Conclusion: consumerism, crime and pseudo-pacification process