Cultural criminology: Some notes on the script

Let us start with a question: what is this phenomenon called ‘cultural

criminology’? Above all else, it is the placing of crime and its control in the

context of culture; that is, viewing both crime and the agencies of control

as cultural products—as creative constructs. As such, they must be read in

terms of the meanings they carry. Furthermore, cultural criminology seeks

to highlight the interaction between these two elements: the relationship

and the interaction between constructions upwards and constructions

downwards. Its focus is always upon the continuous generation of meaning

around interaction; rules created, rules broken, a constant interplay of

moral entrepreneurship, moral innovation and transgression.