Cultural criminology and the carnival of crime / / Mike Presdee
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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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| Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2000 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (182 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina: | 364 |
| 364.250941 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Crime - Sociological aspects |
| Criminology | |
| Deviant behavior | |
| Subculture | |
| Pleasure - Social aspects | |
| Criminology, Penology & Juvenile Delinquency | |
| Social Welfare & Social Work | |
| Social Sciences | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [165]-175) 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Cultural criminology and the carnival of crime |
| 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 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910777336703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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