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Buch, Englisch, 424 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 215 mm, Gewicht: 465 g

Lynes / Kelly / Treadwell

50 Dark Destinations

Crime and Contemporary Tourism

Buch, Englisch, 424 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 215 mm, Gewicht: 465 g

ISBN: 978-1-4473-6219-7
Verlag: Bristol University Press


From the Alcatraz East Crime Museum and Jack the Ripper guided tours to the Phnom Penh killing fields, ‘dark tourism’ is now a multi-million-pound global industry. Even in the most pleasant tourist destinations, underlying harms are constantly perpetuated, affecting both consumers and those who work or live around such tourist hotspots. Highlighting 50 travel destinations across six continents, expert criminologists, psychologists and historians explore the past and contemporary issues which we often disregard during our everyday leisure.
This captivating book is the ‘go-to’ guide for anyone interested in crime and deviance-related tourism. Accessible and digestible, it exposes a worrying trend in contemporary consumer culture, in which many of us partake.
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Introduction - Adam Lynes, Craig Kelly and James Treadwell
1. Cocaine Bear: Lexington, Kentucky, USA - Travis Linnemann
2. Whitney Plantation: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA - Thomas Raymen
3. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution: Washington DC, USA - Alice Storey
4. From Newgate Prison to Tyburn Tree: the Old Bailey, London, UK - Peter Joyce and Wendy Laverick
5. Jack the Ripper Tour: Whitechapel, London, UK - Kevin Hoffin
6. The Alcatraz East Crime Museum: Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, USA - Laura Hammond
7. The Museum of Death: Hollywood, Los Angeles, USA - Loukas Ntanos
8. The Royal Armouries Museum: Leeds, UK - Sarah Jones
9. The Black Dahlia tour: Los Angeles, California, USA - David Wilson
10. The Execution Dock: Wapping, East London, UK - Wendy Laverick and Peter Joyce
11. Auschwitz: Oswiecim, Poland - Tammy Ayres and Sarah Hodgkinson
12. Jeju 4:3 memorial: Jeju Island, South Korea - Robin West
13. Museum Dr. Guislain: Ghent, Belgium - Sophie Gregory
14. Karosta Prison Hotel: Liepaja, Latvia - Melindy Duffus
15. The Clink prison-based restaurant: Brixton, London, UK - Dan Rusu
16. The 9/11 memorial and museum: New York, New York, USA - John Bahadur Lamb
17. The Tuol Sleng Museum of Genocidal Crimes: Phnom Penh, Cambodia - Eamonn Carrabine
18. Choeung Ek killing field: Phnom Penh, Cambodia - Luke Telford
19. Blue lights in the Red Light District: Amsterdam, the Netherlands - Ben Colliver
20. Trophy hunting: sub-Saharan Africa - Patrick Berry and Gary R. Potter
21. 'The ugly side to the beautiful game': Qatar - Grace Gallacher
22. Burning Man festival: Black Rock Desert, Nevada, USA - Keith Hayward
23. Magaluf: Majorca - Simon Winlow
24. 'Holiday Hooters': Hong Kong - Katie Lowe
25. Scilla: Calabria, Italy - Anna Sergi
26. The Kray twins tours: London, UK - Craig Ancrum
27. Backpacking in the outback: Uluru, Northern Territory, Australia - Eveleigh Buck-Matthews and Craig Kelly
28. The hippie trail: Nepal, South Asia - Emiline Smith
29. The Museum of Confiscated Art: Brest, Belarus - Donna Yates and Hannah London
30. Steroid holidays: Sharm El Sheikh, Sinai Peninsula, Egypt - Nick Gibbs
31. The Souks: Tunis, Tunisia - Kyla Bavin and James Treadwell
32. Mezhyhirya Residence Museum: Novi Petrivtsi, Ukraine - Tereza Østbø Kuldova and Jardar Østbø
33. The great British seaside: various locations, UK - Neil Chakraborti
34. The Biggie mural: Brooklyn, New York, USA - Natasha Pope
35. The Rebus guided tour: Edinburgh, UK - Ian R. Cook and Michael Rowe
36. Volunteer tourism - 'doing it for the 'gram': Cambodia, Southeast Asia - Orlando Woods
37. The Staycation: home - Jack Denham
38. The 'suicide forest': Aokigahara, Japan - Max Hart
39. Pitcairn Island: Pitcairn Islands, Pacific Ocean - Steve Wadley
40. Favela tours: Rio De Janerio, Brazil - Duncan Frankis and Selina Patel Nascimento
41. Skid Row walking tours: Los Angeles, California, USA - Craig Kelly
42. The 2019-2020 anti-extradition protests: Hong Kong - Jane Richards
43. The Maldives: Republic of Maldives, Indian Ocean - Emiline Smith and Oliver Smith
44. Death Road: La Paz to Coroico, Bolivia - Joe Garrihy
45. Vulture brains and muthi markets: Johannesburg, South Africa - Angus Nurse
46. Dark Tourism, ecocide and alpine ski resorts: the Alps, Europe - Oliver Smith
47. Boho Zone: Middlesbrough, UK - Emma Winlow
48. One Hyde Park: London, UK - Rowland Atkinson
49. Amazon warehouse tours: Rugeley, UK or virtual tour - Adam Lynes
50. Disney World: Orlando, Florida, USA - Anthony Lloyd
Conclusion - Adam Lynes, Craig Kelly and James Treadwell


Wilson, David
David Wilson is Professor of Criminology at Birmingham City University and the founding Director for the Centre for Applied Criminology. He is regarded as one of the country's leading experts on serial murder

Nurse, Angus
Angus Nurse is Associate Professor of Environmental Justice and Director of Policing Programmes at Middlesex University London.

Raymen, Thomas
Thomas Raymen is an Associate Professor of Criminology at Northumbria University. He is a co-founder of the Deviant Leisure Research Network, and the founder and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Contemporary Crime, Harm, and Ethics. He has written or edited numerous books chapters and journal articles. Raymen is a core researcher of the LUXCORE project.

Treadwell, James
Dr James Treadwell is Professor of Criminology at Staffordshire University and has also worked at the University of Birmingham, and University of Leicester. Previously he worked for the crime reduction charity NACRO, and as a Probation Officer in the West Midlands. He undertakes ethnographic and qualitative research for crime and criminal justice related projects, including studies of the English Defence League, and the August 2011 English Riots.

Garrihy, Joe
Contributor, 50 Dark Destinations

Atkinson, Rowland
Rowland Atkinson is Chair in Inclusive Societies, in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Sheffield. His research crosses urban studies, sociology, geography and criminology and looks at different forms of exclusion and inequality. Among other interests his work has focused on questions of wealth and poverty in societies and the often invisible harms generated by social inequality in urban settings. Rowland lead the first study of gated communities in the UK as well as the first key study of the rich in London and continues to work to connect the lives of the affluent to social problems, he is the author of (with Sarah Blandy) Domestic Fortress. Books: Better society

Østbø Kuldova, Tereza
Tereza Østbø Kuldova is a Research Professor at the Work Research Institute, Oslo Metropolitan University. She is a social anthropologist and the author of six books and numerous articles. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Extreme Anthropology and of the Algorithmic Governance Research Network. She currently leads the LUXCORE project: Luxury, Corruption and Global Ethics: Towards a Critical Cultural Theory of the Moral Economy of Fraud, funded by the Research Council of Norway.

Lloyd, Anthony
Anthony Lloyd is Reader in Criminology and Sociology at Teesside University.

Rowe, Michael
Michael Rowe is Professor of Criminology at the University of Northumbria. He has an international reputation for his research and publications in the field of policing, particularly in relation to police culture, reforms, diversity, the policing of domestic violence, on-line victimisation and offender desistance.

Telford, Luke
Luke Telford is Lecturer in Criminology at Staffordshire University.

Lynes, Adam
Dr Adam G T Lynes, is a Lecturer in Criminology, at Birmingham City University, where he has taught since 2012, covering topics from criminological theory to organised and violent crime. He has published research focusing on violent crimes from serial murder to family annihilation, and recently was a co-author on a new text book.

Sergi, Anna
Anna Sergi is Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Essex. She specialises in organised crime and comparative criminal justice. She has published widely including four previous books, the most recent one published by Bristol University Press.

Winlow, Simon
Simon Winlow is Professor of Criminology at Northumbria University.

Adam Lynes is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Birmingham City University.
Craig Kelly is Lecturer in Criminology at Birmingham City University.
James Treadwell is Professor in Criminology at Staffordshire University.


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