Transgressive Imaginations

Crime, Deviance and Culture
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-349-36749-8
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 187 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 312 g

Reihe: Critical Criminological Perspectives

This book focuses upon the breaking of rules and taboos involved in 'doing crime', including violent crime as represented in fictive texts and ethnographic research. It includes chapters on topics of urgent contemporary interest such as asylum seekers, sex work, serial killers, school shooters, crimes of poverty and understandings of 'madness'.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

O'Neill, M.

Seal, L.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Transgressive Imaginations: Crime, Deviance and Culture Children as Victims and Villains: The School Shooter Violent Female Avengers in Popular Culture Transgressing Sex Work: Ethnography, Film and Fiction Madness and Liminality: Psychosocialand Fictive Images Serial Killers and the Ethics of Representation Outlaws, Borders and Folk Devils Crime, Poverty and Resistance on Skid Row Notes Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

MAGGIE O'NEILL Reader in Criminology at Durham University, UK. Her previous publications include (co-edited with R. Campbell), , (co-edited with R. Matthews), and .
LIZZIE SEAL Lecturer in Criminology at Durham University, UK.Her previous publications include . She is currently researching public responses to the death penalty in England and Wales.