Popular culture, crime and social control / / edited by Mathieu Deflem

• Pubblicazione: Bingley, : Emerald, 2010
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (300 p.)
• Disciplina: 364
• Soggetto topico: Popular culture; Crime; Social control; Sociology & anthropology; Crime & criminology; Social Science - Sociology - General; Social Science - Popular Culture; Social Science - Criminology
• Altri autori: DeflemMathieu
• Note generali: Description based on print version record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: the criminology of popular culture / Mathieu Deflem -- Part I: Crime and Social Control in the Visual Arts. Reefer Madness and beyond / Susan Boyd ; The Dark Knight: constructing images of good vs. evil in an age of anxiety / Nickie D. Phillips ; Superhero justice: the depiction of crime and justice in modern-age comic books and graphic novels / Bradford W. Reyns and Billy Henson ; Televised images of jail: lessons in controlling the unruly / Dawn K. Cecil -- Part II: Resistance, Crime, and Protest in Music. "I broke the law? No, the law broke me!" Palestinian hip-hop and the semiotics of occupation / Judah Schept ; Rap music's violent and misogynistic effects: fact or fiction? / Charis E. Kubrin and Ronald Weitzer ; Crime resistance and song: black musicianship is black criminology / Viviane Saleh-Hanna ; The different sounds of American protest: from freedom songs to punk rock / Ellen C. Leichtman -- Part III: Crime and Justice in Non-Fiction. Evil monsters and cunning perverts: representing and regulating the dangerous paedophile / Anneke Meyer ; Framing the scene: presentations of forensics programming in the news / Gregory G. Justis and Steven Chermak ; Beach crime in popular culture: confining the carnivalesque in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil / Stephanie C. Kane ; Here be dragons: Lombroso, the gothic, and social control / Nicole Rafter and Per Ystehede.
• 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 theoretical approach and methodological orientation. Using a variety of methodological and theoretical perspectives, the volume is diverse in addressing dimensions of popular culture in relation to important criminological questions.
• 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.: 9910816625703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Sociology of crime, law and deviance ; ; v. 14