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Cultural Criminology: Theories of Crime

Ferrell, Jeff and Hayward, Keith J., eds. (2011) Cultural Criminology: Theories of Crime. Library of Essays in Theoretical Criminology . Ashgate Publishing Group, Aldershot, 604 pp. ISBN 978-0-7546-2943-6. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:38374)

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Abstract

Cultural criminology has now emerged as a distinct theoretical perspective, and as a notable intellectual alternative to certain aspects of contemporary criminology. Cultural criminology attempts to theorize the interplay of cultural processes, media practices, and crime; the emotional and embodied dimensions of crime and victimization; the particular characteristics of crime within late modern/late capitalist culture; and the role of criminology itself in constructing the reality of crime. In this sense cultural criminology not only offers innovative theoretical models for making sense of crime, criminality, and crime control, but presents as well a critical theory of criminology as a field of study. This collection is designed to highlight each of these dimensions of cultural criminology - its theoretical foundations, its current theoretical trajectories, and its broader theoretical critiques-by presenting the best of cultural criminological work from the United States, Europe, Australia, and elsewhere.

Item Type: Edited book
Subjects: H Social Sciences
Divisions: Divisions > Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice > School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research
Depositing User: Mita Mondal
Date Deposited: 19 Feb 2014 15:21 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 10:14 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/38374 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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