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Autore |
Presdee Mike <1944, > |
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Titolo |
Cultural criminology and the carnival of crime / / Mike Presdee |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2000 |
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ISBN |
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1-85728-736-3 |
1-134-55457-5 |
1-134-55458-3 |
1-280-06808-6 |
0-203-28022-9 |
0-203-29914-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (182 pages) : illustrations |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Crime - Sociological aspects |
Criminology |
Deviant behavior |
Subculture |
Pleasure - Social aspects |
Criminology, Penology & Juvenile Delinquency |
Social Welfare & Social Work |
Social Sciences |
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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 (pages [165]-175) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; Apologies; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Analysis; Cultural criminology; From carnival to the carnival of crime; Commodification, consumption and crime; Context; Hurt, humiliation and crime as popular pleasure; The criminalisation of consent: the case of SM; Rap and rave and the criminalisation of youth; The carnival and the performing of crime: young people, knives and other weapons; Senseless acts: the harbouring and harvesting of hate; References; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Cultural Criminology and the Carnival of Crime attempts to make sense |
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of the current increase in violence, cruelty, hate and humiliation, which has come to permeate daily life. The text argues that an overly organised economic world has provoked a widespread desire for extreme, oppositional forms of popular and personal pleasure. This desire has resulted in a cathartic 'second life' of illicit pleasures often deemed criminal by those in power. Amongst the exciting issues Mike Presdee addresses are:* joyriding* street crime* antisocial behaviour in private via the inter |
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