Popular culture, crime and social control [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Mathieu Deflem

• Pubblicazione: Bingley, : Emerald, 2010
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (300 p.)
• Disciplina: 364
• Soggetto topico: Crime; Popular culture; Social control
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: DeflemMathieu
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 ; 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Popular culture, crime and social control
• ISBN: 1-282-55266-X; 9786612552663; 1-84950-733-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910458921203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Sociology of crime, law, and deviance ; ; v. 14.