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UNINA9910458921203321 |
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Titolo |
Popular culture, crime and social control [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Mathieu Deflem |
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ISBN |
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1-282-55266-X |
9786612552663 |
1-84950-733-3 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (300 p.) |
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Collana |
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Sociology of crime, law and deviance, , 1521-6136 ; ; 14 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Crime |
Popular culture |
Social control |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front cover; Popular Culture Crime and Social Control; Copyright page; Contents; List of contributors; Introduction: The criminology of popular culture; References; Part I: Crime and Social Control in the Visual Arts; Chapter 1. Reefer Madness and beyond; Chapter 2. The Dark Knight: Constructing Images of Good vs. Evil in an Age of Anxiety; Chapter 3. Superhero justice: The depiction of crime and justice in modern-age comic books and graphic novels; Chapter 4. Televised images of jail: Lessons in controlling the unruly; Part II: Resistance, Crime, and Protest in Music |
Chapter 5. ''I broke the law? No, the law broke meexcl'' Palestinian hip-hop and the semiotics of occupationChapter 6. Rap music's violent and misogynistic effects: Fact or fiction?; Chapter 7. Crime, resistance and song: Black musicianship's black criminology; Chapter 8. The different sounds of American protest: From freedom songs to punk rock; Part III: Crime and Justie in Non-fiction; Chapter 9. Evil monsters and cunning perverts: Representing and regulating the dangerous paedophile; Chapter 10. Framing the scene: presentations of forensics programming in the news |
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Chapter 11. Beach crime in popular culture: Confining the carnivalesque in Salvador da Bahia, BrazilChapter 12. Here be dragons: Lombroso, the gothic, and social control; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This volume contains contributions on the theme of popular culture, crime, and social control. The chapters in this volume tease out various criminologically relevant issues, pertaining to crime/deviance and/or the control thereof, on the basis of an analysis of various aspects and manifestations of popular culture, including music, movies, television, paintings, sculptures, photographs, cartoons, and the internet-based audio-visual materials that are presently available. Thematically diverse within the province of criminology, the chapters in this book are not restricted in terms of theoretic |
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