Criminology, Deviance, and the Silver Screen: The Fictional Reality and the Criminological Imagination

ISBN-13: 9781349378869 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 249 str.

Jon Frauley; J. Frauley

Opis

This text argues for the usefulness of fictional realities for criminological theorizing and analysis. It illustrates that a creative and critical social scientific practice requires craft norms rather than commercial norms that threaten to completely colonize higher education.

Spis treści

Introductory Remarks - Films, Themes, and Premises Theory, Theorizing, and Fictional Realities The Criminological Imagination Pathology, Power, and Medicalization in K-PAX and Happiness Moral Transcendence and Symbolic Interaction in Falling Down Subculture, Control, and American History X Power Crime and the Culture of Enterprise in American Psycho and Thank You for Smoking Bio-politics and Stigma Management in GATTACA

O autorze

JON FRAULEY is Assistant Professor of Criminology at the University of Ottawa, Canada.