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Record Nr.

UNINA9910337823903321

Titolo

Crime, Deviance and Popular Culture : International and Multidisciplinary Perspectives / / edited by Dimitris Akrivos, Alexandros K. Antoniou

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019

ISBN

3-030-04912-4

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVII, 343 p. 12 illus.)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Crime, Media and Culture

Disciplina

364.04

364

Soggetti

Violència en els mitjans de comunicació de massa

Cultura popular

Criminologia

Antropologia social

Mass media and crime

Culture

Mass media

Communication

Popular Culture

Crime—Sociological aspects

Crime and the Media

Sociology of Culture

Media Sociology

Crime and Society

Llibres electrònics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores the links between crime, deviance and popular culture in our highly-mediatised era, offering an insight into the cultural processes through which particular practices acquire a criminal



or deviant status, and come to be seen as social problems. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, the edited collection brings together international scholars across various areas of specialisation to provide an up-to-date analysis of some important and topical issues in 21st-century popular culture. The chapters look at different aspects of popular culture, including fictional detective narratives and the true crime genre, popular media constructions of sexual deviance and Islamophobia, sports, graffiti and outlaw biker subcultures. The authors examine a wide range of relevant case studies through a number of crime and deviance-related theories. Crime, Deviance and Popular Culture will be of importance to scholars and students across several disciplines, including criminology, sociology of deviance, social anthropology, media studies, cultural studies, television studies and linguistics. .