Hall / Winlow / Ancrum Criminal Identities and Consumer Culture

Crime, Exclusion and the New Culture of Narcissm
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-134-01043-1
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten

This book offers the first in-depth investigation into the relationship between today's criminal identities and consumer culture. Using unique data taken from criminals locked in areas of permanent recession, the book aims to uncover feelings and attitudes towards a variety of criminal activities, investigating the incorporation of hearts and minds into consumer culture's surrogate social world and highlighting the relationship between the lived identities of active criminals and the socio-economic climate of instability and anxiety that permeates post-industrial Britain.

This book will be of interest to undergraduates, postgraduates, researchers and lecturers in all fields within the social sciences, but especially criminology, sociology, social policy, politics and anthropology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hall, Steve

Winlow, Simon

Ancrum, Craig

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Steve Hall is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Northumbria University, UK.

Simon Winlow is Lecturer in Sociology and Criminology at the University of York, UK.

Craig Ancrum is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Teeside, UK.