Redmon, David (2002) Cultural Criminology and the Carnival of Crime. Review of: Cultural Criminology and the Carnival of Crime by Presdee, Mike. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 35 (1). pp. 114-116. (doi:10.1375/acri.35.1.114) (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:45968)
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Abstract
M
ike Presdee addresses carnivalesque events in his fascinating, timely, and
must-read book,
Cultural Criminology and the Carnival of Crime
. Presdee
addresses the performance of pleasures, the various ways in which they are
consumed on the margins of social life, and why these pleasures threaten “orderly”
society. Presdee appropriately names these exciting and seductive pleasures “the
carnival”. Carnival is the second life of the people, a festive space “where truth can
be told against the cold-hearted lies of rational, scientific modernity” (Presdee,
2000, p. 9). Carnival exists in opposition to the official life of inequality, a life filled
with rationality, oppression, suffering, and poverty. Here people experience humili-
ation, alienation, and meaningless existence.
| Item Type: | Review |
|---|---|
| DOI/Identification number: | 10.1375/acri.35.1.114 |
| 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: | N. Gregory |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Dec 2014 15:14 UTC |
| Last Modified: | 16 Nov 2021 10:18 UTC |
| Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/45968 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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