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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822674803321

Autore

Presdee Mike <1944->

Titolo

Cultural criminology and the carnival of crime / / Mike Presdee

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Routledge, 2000

ISBN

1-85728-736-3

1-134-55457-5

1-134-55458-3

1-280-06808-6

0-203-28022-9

0-203-29914-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (182 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

364.250941

Soggetti

Crime - Sociological aspects

Criminology - Great Britain

Deviant behavior - Great Britain

Subculture - Great Britain

Pleasure - Social aspects - Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

Cultural Criminology and the Carnival of Crime attempts to make sense 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