Popular Culture, Crime and Social Control by Mathieu Deflem (English) Hardcover

Description: Popular Culture, Crime and Social Control by Mathieu Deflem Contains contributions on the theme of popular culture, crime, and social control. This title includes chapters that 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, and movies. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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. Table of Contents List of Contributors.Introduction: The criminology of popular culture.Reefer Madness and beyond.The Dark Knight: Constructing Images of Good vs. Evil in an Age of Anxiety.Superhero justice: The depiction of crime and justice in modern-age comic books and graphic novels.Televised images of jail: Lessons in controlling the unruly."I broke the law? No, the law broke me!" Palestinian hip-hop and the semiotics of occupation.Rap musics violent and misogynistic effects: Fact or fiction?.Crime, resistance and song: Black musicianships black criminology.The different sounds of American protest: From freedom songs to punk rock.Evil monsters and cunning perverts: Representing and regulating the dangerous paedophile.Framing the scene: presentations of forensics programming in the news.Beach crime in popular culture: Confining the carnivalesque in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil.Here be dragons: Lombroso, the gothic, and social control.Index.Sociology of crime, law and deviance.Popular Culture, Crime and Social Control.Copyright page. Details ISBN1849507325 Author Mathieu Deflem Year 2010 ISBN-10 1849507325 ISBN-13 9781849507325 Format Hardcover Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Mathieu Deflem DEWEY 364 Illustrations ill Pages 304 Place of Publication Bingley Language English Media Book Series Number 14 Publication Date 2010-04-21 Short Title POPULAR CULTURE CRIME & SOCIAL Publisher Emerald Publishing Limited Series Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance AU Release Date 2010-04-21 NZ Release Date 2010-04-21 UK Release Date 2010-04-21 Alternative 9781849507332 Audience Professional & Vocational Imprint Emerald Group Publishing Limited We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:161848260;

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