Whilst my primary research interest is criminological theory, I have also published widely in the areas of youth crime, popular culture, social theory, and terrorism and fanaticism. As a cultural criminologist I am particularly interested in the various ways in which cultural dynamics intertwine with the practices of crime and crime control within contemporary society. As a consequence, I have written on everything from the commodification of crime and violence in video games, to the liminal spectacle of 'binge' drinking, from so-called 'chav' culture, to the hyper terrorist spectacle of 911. I also regularly undertake media work and have acted as an advisor for several TV and radio programmes about crime and culture.
For those of you interested in cultural criminology, check out my website: www.culturalcriminology.org Phone: +44 (0) 1227 827300 Address: Professor of Criminology,
School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research,
University of Kent,
Canterbury, CT2 2NF
Kent, UK
Criminology has always enjoyed a highly productive relationship with the city, generating many im... more Criminology has always enjoyed a highly productive relationship with the city, generating many important empirical and theoretical studies. But all too often the human experience, social diversity and the inherently pluralistic fabric of city life are transformed into the discourse of demographics, statistics and rationality. This book examines the crime-city nexus in a way that makes sense of criminology's past and contemporary engagements, including both administrative criminology and the work of Jack Katz and Mike Davis. Drawing on a range of disciplinary frameworks - social theory, urban studies, architectural theory and research into urban consumerism practices - the author argues that consumption is central to understanding the city and urban crime. This book will be of interest to students and academics of criminology, social theory, urban studies and cultural studies.
In a world in which media images of crime and deviance proliferate, where every facet of offendin... more In a world in which media images of crime and deviance proliferate, where every facet of offending is reflected in a 'vast hall of mirrors', "Framing Crime: Cultural Criminology and the Image" makes sense of the increasingly blurred line between the real and the virtual. Images of crime and crime control have now become almost as 'real' as crime and criminal justice itself; such that the meaning of both crime and crime control resides, not solely in the essential - and essentially false - factuality of crime rates or arrest records; but also in a contested process of symbolic display, cultural interpretation, and representational negotiation.It is essential, then, that criminologists are closely attuned to the various ways in which crime is imagined, constructed and framed within modern society. "Framing Crime: Cultural Criminology and the Image" responds to this demand with a collection of papers aimed towards helping the reader better understand the ways in which the contemporary 'story of crime' is constructed and promulgated through the image, as well as providing the relevant analytical/research tools to unearth the hidden social and ideological concerns that frequently underpin images of crime, violence and transgression.
This books draws together the work of the three leading international figures in cultural crimino... more This books draws together the work of the three leading international figures in cultural criminology today. The book traces the history, current configuration, methodological innovations and future trajectories of cultural criminology, mapping its terrain for students and academics in this exciting field.
Praise from Professor Zygmunt Bauman: "This is not just a book on the present state and possible prospects of our understanding of crime, criminals and our responses to both. However greatly the professional criminologists might benefit from the authors' illuminating insights and the new cognitive vistas their investigations have opened, the impact of this book may well stretch far beyond the realm of criminology proper and mark a watershed in the progress of social study as such. This book, after all, brings into the open the irremediable unclarity, endemic contentiousness and the resulting frailty of the line dividing deviance from the norm of social life - that line being simultaneously a weapon and the prime stake in the construction and servicing of social order."
Cultural criminology has now emerged as a distinct theoretical perspective, and as a notable inte... more Cultural criminology has now emerged as a distinct theoretical perspective, and as a notable intellectual alternative to certain aspects of contemporary criminology. Cultural criminology attempts to theorize the interplay of cultural processes, media practices, and crime; the emotional and embodied dimensions of crime and victimization; the particular characteristics of crime within late modern/late capitalist culture; and the role of criminology itself in constructing the reality of crime. In this sense cultural criminology not only offers innovative theoretical models for making sense of crime, criminality, and crime control, but presents as well a critical theory of criminology as a field of study. This collection is designed to highlight each of these dimensions of cultural criminology - its theoretical foundations, its current theoretical trajectories, and its broader theoretical critiques-by presenting the best of cultural criminological work from the United States, Europe, Australia, and elsewhere.
Fifty Key Thinkers in Criminology brings the history of criminological thought alive through a co... more Fifty Key Thinkers in Criminology brings the history of criminological thought alive through a collection of fascinating life stories. The book covers a range of historical and contemporary thinkers from around the world, offering a stimulating combination of biographical fact with historical and cultural context. A rich mix of life-and-times detail and theoretical reflection is designed to generate further discussion on some of the key contributions that have shaped the field of criminology.
Featured profiles include:
* Cesare Beccaria
* Nils Christie
* Albert Cohen
* Carol Smart
* W.E.B DuBois
* John Braithwaite
Fifty Key Thinkers in Criminology is an accessible and informative guide that includes helpful cross-referencing and suggestions for further reading. It is of value to all students of criminology as well as of interest to those in related disciplines, such as sociology and criminal justice.
Cultural Criminology Unleashed
Edited by Jeff Ferrell, Keith Hayward, Wayne Morrison & Mike Pre... more Cultural Criminology Unleashed
Edited by Jeff Ferrell, Keith Hayward, Wayne Morrison & Mike Presdee
This new title will become the core book on cultural criminology. Cultural Criminology Unleashed brings together cutting edge research across the range of meanings of the term 'cultural' - from anthropology to art, from media analyses to theories of situated meaning. Global in scope, contributions take in the US, UK, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Japan.
A landmark text on the crime-culture nexus, Cultural Criminology Unleashed will be vital reading for academics as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students of criminology/sociology of deviance, penology and criminal justice, as well as cultural studies, media studies, qualitative research methods and sociology. Its editors and authors include the leading exponents of cultural criminology on both sides of the Atlantic.
Contents include: Style, Criminology and Phenomenology; ; Biography and the Excavation of Transgression; The Narrative Gratifications of Street Fighting; Visual Methodologies in Cultural Criminology; Marilyn Manson, Colombine, and Cultural Criminology; New Cultural Approaches to Alcohol and Drug Research; Cultural Resistance to the US Patriot Act; Illegal Street racing and the Seduction of Speed: Shifting Underclass Criminal Identities in Late Modernity; The 'Hillbilly Heroin' Moral Panic; The Commodification of Child Sexual Abuse; Celebrity and Criminality; Cultural Criminology, the City and the Spatial Dynamics of Exclusion; Scrounging the Margins of Legality; Crime Talk in Contemporary Urban Japan ; Graffiti Beyond Subculture; Psycho-social Criminology; Immigrant Ethnicity and the Multi-Cultural Administration of Justice ; Cross-cultural Dynamics of Street Gangs; Masculine Fantasy and the Internet; Voodoo Criminology and the Numbers Game.
About the Editors: Jeff Ferrell, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Texas Christian University, USA; Keith Hayward, School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, University of Kent; Wayne Morrison, Director, External Law Programme, University of London; Mike Presdee, School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, University of Kent.
Few subjects provoke as much public fascination and political concern as crime and criminality. C... more Few subjects provoke as much public fascination and political concern as crime and criminality. Criminology is an ideal textbook for undergraduate students approaching the subject for the first time. It examines a wide range of topics, including historical and contemporary understandings of crime and criminal justice; different forms of crime - from street crime to state crime; who commits crime and who are the victims of crime; and how society and state agencies respond to crime and disorder. The contributions to the book offer clear, accessible introductions to the main topics and issues of criminology and the book includes questions, summaries, further reading guidance, useful web links, and tables and diagrams throughout. The second edition contains a new chapter on criminological research to provide students with an overview of the different research methods used in the study of criminology. All chapters have been fully revised and updated to incorporate recent developments in the field, including changes in criminal justice policy. Online Resource Centre This book is accompanied by an extensive Online Resource Centre which can be used by lecturers and students alike. The resources available are as follows: Lecturer Resources Lecture notes by chapter Powerpoint slides to accompany lecture notes Test bank of multiple choice questions Student Resources Updates Chapter synopses Annotated further reading lists Glossary Web links
This chapter offers a brief crimino- logical introduction to the smart city and in particular som... more This chapter offers a brief crimino- logical introduction to the smart city and in particular some of the grandiose corporate and tech industry claims that regularly surround the concept of urban smartness. More specifically it outlines five putative ‘smart city futures’: 1) ‘The smart city as sociotechnical imaginary’; 2) ‘The smart city as corporate “play” space’; 3) ‘The smart city as militarised tech zone’; 4) ‘The smart city as cyborg city’; and finally, 5) ‘The smart city as adversarial surface’. Adopting the perspective of cultural criminology, the chapter poses a se- ries of questions about the future of urban apace in ‘the age of the smart city’. In particular, it asks what will ‘living’ actually mean when urban life is ultimately defined and enforced by a compu- tational system?
This article introduces the concept of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to a criminological audience.... more This article introduces the concept of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to a criminological audience. After a general review of the phenomenon (including brief explanations of important cognate fields such as 'machine learning', 'deep learning', and 'reinforcement learning'), the paper then turns to the potential application of AI by criminals, including what we term here 'crimes with AI', 'crimes against AI', and 'crimes by AI'. In these sections, our aim is to highlight AI's potential as a criminogenic phenomenon, both in terms of scaling up existing crimes and facilitating new digital transgressions. In the third part of the article, we turn our attention to the main ways the AI paradigm is transforming policing, surveillance, and criminal justice practices via diffuse monitoring modalities based on prediction and prevention. Throughout the paper, we deploy an array of programmatic examples which, collectively, we hope will serve as a useful AI primer for criminologists interested in the 'tech-crime nexus'.
This paper considers the recent phenomenon of the vehicle-ramming attack (VRA): i.e. the act of p... more This paper considers the recent phenomenon of the vehicle-ramming attack (VRA): i.e. the act of purposely driving a vehicle into pedestrians and populated vehicles. It documents the recent (2015-2017) rise in the prevalence of ramming attacks and how these incidents challenge some of the assumptions we have about terrorism and its causes. Typically, criminologists and terrorist scholars tend to focus on either the 'psychology' of individual terrorists or wider structural or ethno-political issues, such as religion, ideological doctrine or the role of terrorist organizations in converting and recruiting people to violence. This paper will adopt a different position, one which focusses less on structure and individual psychology, and more on the act itself, as something that is not merely an expression of an individual or an ideology, but something that has a lure and force all of its own, as something that travels through our contemporary mediascape, to be internalized and imitated by an increasingly varied set of subjects with varying motivations, psychologies, ideologies and circumstantial backgrounds.
Nordic noir is a popular crime genre associated with a region (Scandinavia), a narrative style (u... more Nordic noir is a popular crime genre associated with a region (Scandinavia), a narrative style (unpretentious/socially critical) and a particular aesthetic look (dark/foreboding). Renowned for its psychologically complex characterization and gloomy Mise-en-scène, and spanning best-selling crime fiction, film, and globally successful television drama, Nordic noir has mushroomed from regional niche market to international phenomenon in little more than a decade. A review of both popular and academic accounts of the genre suggest that much of Nordic noir's appeal comes from its supposed 'gritty' or 'realist' account of Scandinavian society. This paper, however, adopts a different perspective. Drawing on cultural criminology, ultra-realism and Lacanian psychoanalytic theory, we argue that, rather than accurately reflecting the complex social and political problems currently confronting late modern Scandinavian welfare societies, Nordic noir has lost its grip on realism and any meaningful association with actual/established Scandinavian values. Instead, Nordic noir is now functioning as a displacement narrative, a form of cultural expression that allows artists, producers and their audiences to push the region's social problems outside the realm even of the Imaginary.
... nije fokusiran na sve oblike devijantnog ponasanja, vec samo na odredene - "remetilacke&... more ... nije fokusiran na sve oblike devijantnog ponasanja, vec samo na odredene - "remetilacke"; druga ironija je u tome sto monitoring ne diktira drzava, vec potpuno "lib-eralizovano" trziste. Upliv privatnog (finansijskog) interesa u sfere socijalne kontrole Taylor vidi kao nedopustivo ...
Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews, 2006
... Among them are Gregg Barak, Susan Caringella MacDon-ald, Patricia Clough, Bill DiFazio, Susan... more ... Among them are Gregg Barak, Susan Caringella MacDon-ald, Patricia Clough, Bill DiFazio, Susanna Danuta Walters, Cynthia Epstein, Mark Fishman ... Beverly Watkins was a terrific early researcher, as was Isolde Brielmaier and Abhaya Kaufman (who later contributed editorial ...
En el presente artículo, los autores abordan algunas de las características principales de la cri... more En el presente artículo, los autores abordan algunas de las características principales de la criminología cultural, una perspectiva que ha tenido un notable desarrollo en los últimos años. En particular, definen la necesidad un nuevo enfoque «cultural» en la criminología contemporánea, en el marco de la Modernidad Tardía, que nos obliga a replantearnos tanto su objeto como su método de investigación. Esta propuesta, que se define como novedosa, busca trazar su genealogía en enfoques como el «naturalismo» de Matza, la fenomenología radical de Becker o la perspectiva crítica de la National Deviancy Conference, entre otros. De esta forma, los autores plantean la necesidad de disputar el campo criminológico con aquellas «criminologías» quedenominan «positivistas», «neoliberales» o «académicas». Por último, esbozan algunos ejemplos de este «nuevo/viejo» enfoque para la criminología.
Criminology has always enjoyed a highly productive relationship with the city, generating many im... more Criminology has always enjoyed a highly productive relationship with the city, generating many important empirical and theoretical studies. But all too often the human experience, social diversity and the inherently pluralistic fabric of city life are transformed into the discourse of demographics, statistics and rationality. This book examines the crime-city nexus in a way that makes sense of criminology's past and contemporary engagements, including both administrative criminology and the work of Jack Katz and Mike Davis. Drawing on a range of disciplinary frameworks - social theory, urban studies, architectural theory and research into urban consumerism practices - the author argues that consumption is central to understanding the city and urban crime. This book will be of interest to students and academics of criminology, social theory, urban studies and cultural studies.
In a world in which media images of crime and deviance proliferate, where every facet of offendin... more In a world in which media images of crime and deviance proliferate, where every facet of offending is reflected in a 'vast hall of mirrors', "Framing Crime: Cultural Criminology and the Image" makes sense of the increasingly blurred line between the real and the virtual. Images of crime and crime control have now become almost as 'real' as crime and criminal justice itself; such that the meaning of both crime and crime control resides, not solely in the essential - and essentially false - factuality of crime rates or arrest records; but also in a contested process of symbolic display, cultural interpretation, and representational negotiation.It is essential, then, that criminologists are closely attuned to the various ways in which crime is imagined, constructed and framed within modern society. "Framing Crime: Cultural Criminology and the Image" responds to this demand with a collection of papers aimed towards helping the reader better understand the ways in which the contemporary 'story of crime' is constructed and promulgated through the image, as well as providing the relevant analytical/research tools to unearth the hidden social and ideological concerns that frequently underpin images of crime, violence and transgression.
This books draws together the work of the three leading international figures in cultural crimino... more This books draws together the work of the three leading international figures in cultural criminology today. The book traces the history, current configuration, methodological innovations and future trajectories of cultural criminology, mapping its terrain for students and academics in this exciting field.
Praise from Professor Zygmunt Bauman: "This is not just a book on the present state and possible prospects of our understanding of crime, criminals and our responses to both. However greatly the professional criminologists might benefit from the authors' illuminating insights and the new cognitive vistas their investigations have opened, the impact of this book may well stretch far beyond the realm of criminology proper and mark a watershed in the progress of social study as such. This book, after all, brings into the open the irremediable unclarity, endemic contentiousness and the resulting frailty of the line dividing deviance from the norm of social life - that line being simultaneously a weapon and the prime stake in the construction and servicing of social order."
Cultural criminology has now emerged as a distinct theoretical perspective, and as a notable inte... more Cultural criminology has now emerged as a distinct theoretical perspective, and as a notable intellectual alternative to certain aspects of contemporary criminology. Cultural criminology attempts to theorize the interplay of cultural processes, media practices, and crime; the emotional and embodied dimensions of crime and victimization; the particular characteristics of crime within late modern/late capitalist culture; and the role of criminology itself in constructing the reality of crime. In this sense cultural criminology not only offers innovative theoretical models for making sense of crime, criminality, and crime control, but presents as well a critical theory of criminology as a field of study. This collection is designed to highlight each of these dimensions of cultural criminology - its theoretical foundations, its current theoretical trajectories, and its broader theoretical critiques-by presenting the best of cultural criminological work from the United States, Europe, Australia, and elsewhere.
Fifty Key Thinkers in Criminology brings the history of criminological thought alive through a co... more Fifty Key Thinkers in Criminology brings the history of criminological thought alive through a collection of fascinating life stories. The book covers a range of historical and contemporary thinkers from around the world, offering a stimulating combination of biographical fact with historical and cultural context. A rich mix of life-and-times detail and theoretical reflection is designed to generate further discussion on some of the key contributions that have shaped the field of criminology.
Featured profiles include:
* Cesare Beccaria
* Nils Christie
* Albert Cohen
* Carol Smart
* W.E.B DuBois
* John Braithwaite
Fifty Key Thinkers in Criminology is an accessible and informative guide that includes helpful cross-referencing and suggestions for further reading. It is of value to all students of criminology as well as of interest to those in related disciplines, such as sociology and criminal justice.
Cultural Criminology Unleashed
Edited by Jeff Ferrell, Keith Hayward, Wayne Morrison & Mike Pre... more Cultural Criminology Unleashed
Edited by Jeff Ferrell, Keith Hayward, Wayne Morrison & Mike Presdee
This new title will become the core book on cultural criminology. Cultural Criminology Unleashed brings together cutting edge research across the range of meanings of the term 'cultural' - from anthropology to art, from media analyses to theories of situated meaning. Global in scope, contributions take in the US, UK, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Japan.
A landmark text on the crime-culture nexus, Cultural Criminology Unleashed will be vital reading for academics as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students of criminology/sociology of deviance, penology and criminal justice, as well as cultural studies, media studies, qualitative research methods and sociology. Its editors and authors include the leading exponents of cultural criminology on both sides of the Atlantic.
Contents include: Style, Criminology and Phenomenology; ; Biography and the Excavation of Transgression; The Narrative Gratifications of Street Fighting; Visual Methodologies in Cultural Criminology; Marilyn Manson, Colombine, and Cultural Criminology; New Cultural Approaches to Alcohol and Drug Research; Cultural Resistance to the US Patriot Act; Illegal Street racing and the Seduction of Speed: Shifting Underclass Criminal Identities in Late Modernity; The 'Hillbilly Heroin' Moral Panic; The Commodification of Child Sexual Abuse; Celebrity and Criminality; Cultural Criminology, the City and the Spatial Dynamics of Exclusion; Scrounging the Margins of Legality; Crime Talk in Contemporary Urban Japan ; Graffiti Beyond Subculture; Psycho-social Criminology; Immigrant Ethnicity and the Multi-Cultural Administration of Justice ; Cross-cultural Dynamics of Street Gangs; Masculine Fantasy and the Internet; Voodoo Criminology and the Numbers Game.
About the Editors: Jeff Ferrell, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Texas Christian University, USA; Keith Hayward, School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, University of Kent; Wayne Morrison, Director, External Law Programme, University of London; Mike Presdee, School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, University of Kent.
Few subjects provoke as much public fascination and political concern as crime and criminality. C... more Few subjects provoke as much public fascination and political concern as crime and criminality. Criminology is an ideal textbook for undergraduate students approaching the subject for the first time. It examines a wide range of topics, including historical and contemporary understandings of crime and criminal justice; different forms of crime - from street crime to state crime; who commits crime and who are the victims of crime; and how society and state agencies respond to crime and disorder. The contributions to the book offer clear, accessible introductions to the main topics and issues of criminology and the book includes questions, summaries, further reading guidance, useful web links, and tables and diagrams throughout. The second edition contains a new chapter on criminological research to provide students with an overview of the different research methods used in the study of criminology. All chapters have been fully revised and updated to incorporate recent developments in the field, including changes in criminal justice policy. Online Resource Centre This book is accompanied by an extensive Online Resource Centre which can be used by lecturers and students alike. The resources available are as follows: Lecturer Resources Lecture notes by chapter Powerpoint slides to accompany lecture notes Test bank of multiple choice questions Student Resources Updates Chapter synopses Annotated further reading lists Glossary Web links
This chapter offers a brief crimino- logical introduction to the smart city and in particular som... more This chapter offers a brief crimino- logical introduction to the smart city and in particular some of the grandiose corporate and tech industry claims that regularly surround the concept of urban smartness. More specifically it outlines five putative ‘smart city futures’: 1) ‘The smart city as sociotechnical imaginary’; 2) ‘The smart city as corporate “play” space’; 3) ‘The smart city as militarised tech zone’; 4) ‘The smart city as cyborg city’; and finally, 5) ‘The smart city as adversarial surface’. Adopting the perspective of cultural criminology, the chapter poses a se- ries of questions about the future of urban apace in ‘the age of the smart city’. In particular, it asks what will ‘living’ actually mean when urban life is ultimately defined and enforced by a compu- tational system?
This article introduces the concept of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to a criminological audience.... more This article introduces the concept of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to a criminological audience. After a general review of the phenomenon (including brief explanations of important cognate fields such as 'machine learning', 'deep learning', and 'reinforcement learning'), the paper then turns to the potential application of AI by criminals, including what we term here 'crimes with AI', 'crimes against AI', and 'crimes by AI'. In these sections, our aim is to highlight AI's potential as a criminogenic phenomenon, both in terms of scaling up existing crimes and facilitating new digital transgressions. In the third part of the article, we turn our attention to the main ways the AI paradigm is transforming policing, surveillance, and criminal justice practices via diffuse monitoring modalities based on prediction and prevention. Throughout the paper, we deploy an array of programmatic examples which, collectively, we hope will serve as a useful AI primer for criminologists interested in the 'tech-crime nexus'.
This paper considers the recent phenomenon of the vehicle-ramming attack (VRA): i.e. the act of p... more This paper considers the recent phenomenon of the vehicle-ramming attack (VRA): i.e. the act of purposely driving a vehicle into pedestrians and populated vehicles. It documents the recent (2015-2017) rise in the prevalence of ramming attacks and how these incidents challenge some of the assumptions we have about terrorism and its causes. Typically, criminologists and terrorist scholars tend to focus on either the 'psychology' of individual terrorists or wider structural or ethno-political issues, such as religion, ideological doctrine or the role of terrorist organizations in converting and recruiting people to violence. This paper will adopt a different position, one which focusses less on structure and individual psychology, and more on the act itself, as something that is not merely an expression of an individual or an ideology, but something that has a lure and force all of its own, as something that travels through our contemporary mediascape, to be internalized and imitated by an increasingly varied set of subjects with varying motivations, psychologies, ideologies and circumstantial backgrounds.
Nordic noir is a popular crime genre associated with a region (Scandinavia), a narrative style (u... more Nordic noir is a popular crime genre associated with a region (Scandinavia), a narrative style (unpretentious/socially critical) and a particular aesthetic look (dark/foreboding). Renowned for its psychologically complex characterization and gloomy Mise-en-scène, and spanning best-selling crime fiction, film, and globally successful television drama, Nordic noir has mushroomed from regional niche market to international phenomenon in little more than a decade. A review of both popular and academic accounts of the genre suggest that much of Nordic noir's appeal comes from its supposed 'gritty' or 'realist' account of Scandinavian society. This paper, however, adopts a different perspective. Drawing on cultural criminology, ultra-realism and Lacanian psychoanalytic theory, we argue that, rather than accurately reflecting the complex social and political problems currently confronting late modern Scandinavian welfare societies, Nordic noir has lost its grip on realism and any meaningful association with actual/established Scandinavian values. Instead, Nordic noir is now functioning as a displacement narrative, a form of cultural expression that allows artists, producers and their audiences to push the region's social problems outside the realm even of the Imaginary.
... nije fokusiran na sve oblike devijantnog ponasanja, vec samo na odredene - "remetilacke&... more ... nije fokusiran na sve oblike devijantnog ponasanja, vec samo na odredene - "remetilacke"; druga ironija je u tome sto monitoring ne diktira drzava, vec potpuno "lib-eralizovano" trziste. Upliv privatnog (finansijskog) interesa u sfere socijalne kontrole Taylor vidi kao nedopustivo ...
Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews, 2006
... Among them are Gregg Barak, Susan Caringella MacDon-ald, Patricia Clough, Bill DiFazio, Susan... more ... Among them are Gregg Barak, Susan Caringella MacDon-ald, Patricia Clough, Bill DiFazio, Susanna Danuta Walters, Cynthia Epstein, Mark Fishman ... Beverly Watkins was a terrific early researcher, as was Isolde Brielmaier and Abhaya Kaufman (who later contributed editorial ...
En el presente artículo, los autores abordan algunas de las características principales de la cri... more En el presente artículo, los autores abordan algunas de las características principales de la criminología cultural, una perspectiva que ha tenido un notable desarrollo en los últimos años. En particular, definen la necesidad un nuevo enfoque «cultural» en la criminología contemporánea, en el marco de la Modernidad Tardía, que nos obliga a replantearnos tanto su objeto como su método de investigación. Esta propuesta, que se define como novedosa, busca trazar su genealogía en enfoques como el «naturalismo» de Matza, la fenomenología radical de Becker o la perspectiva crítica de la National Deviancy Conference, entre otros. De esta forma, los autores plantean la necesidad de disputar el campo criminológico con aquellas «criminologías» quedenominan «positivistas», «neoliberales» o «académicas». Por último, esbozan algunos ejemplos de este «nuevo/viejo» enfoque para la criminología.
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Praise from Professor Zygmunt Bauman: "This is not just a book on the present state and possible prospects of our understanding of crime, criminals and our responses to both. However greatly the professional criminologists might benefit from the authors' illuminating insights and the new cognitive vistas their investigations have opened, the impact of this book may well stretch far beyond the realm of criminology proper and mark a watershed in the progress of social study as such. This book, after all, brings into the open the irremediable unclarity, endemic contentiousness and the resulting frailty of the line dividing deviance from the norm of social life - that line being simultaneously a weapon and the prime stake in the construction and servicing of social order."
Featured profiles include:
* Cesare Beccaria
* Nils Christie
* Albert Cohen
* Carol Smart
* W.E.B DuBois
* John Braithwaite
Fifty Key Thinkers in Criminology is an accessible and informative guide that includes helpful cross-referencing and suggestions for further reading. It is of value to all students of criminology as well as of interest to those in related disciplines, such as sociology and criminal justice.
Edited by Jeff Ferrell, Keith Hayward, Wayne Morrison & Mike Presdee
This new title will become the core book on cultural criminology. Cultural Criminology Unleashed brings together cutting edge research across the range of meanings of the term 'cultural' - from anthropology to art, from media analyses to theories of situated meaning. Global in scope, contributions take in the US, UK, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Japan.
A landmark text on the crime-culture nexus, Cultural Criminology Unleashed will be vital reading for academics as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students of criminology/sociology of deviance, penology and criminal justice, as well as cultural studies, media studies, qualitative research methods and sociology. Its editors and authors include the leading exponents of cultural criminology on both sides of the Atlantic.
Contents include: Style, Criminology and Phenomenology; ; Biography and the Excavation of Transgression; The Narrative Gratifications of Street Fighting; Visual Methodologies in Cultural Criminology; Marilyn Manson, Colombine, and Cultural Criminology; New Cultural Approaches to Alcohol and Drug Research; Cultural Resistance to the US Patriot Act; Illegal Street racing and the Seduction of Speed: Shifting Underclass Criminal Identities in Late Modernity; The 'Hillbilly Heroin' Moral Panic; The Commodification of Child Sexual Abuse; Celebrity and Criminality; Cultural Criminology, the City and the Spatial Dynamics of Exclusion; Scrounging the Margins of Legality; Crime Talk in Contemporary Urban Japan ; Graffiti Beyond Subculture; Psycho-social Criminology; Immigrant Ethnicity and the Multi-Cultural Administration of Justice ; Cross-cultural Dynamics of Street Gangs; Masculine Fantasy and the Internet; Voodoo Criminology and the Numbers Game.
About the Editors: Jeff Ferrell, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Texas Christian University, USA; Keith Hayward, School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, University of Kent; Wayne Morrison, Director, External Law Programme, University of London; Mike Presdee, School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, University of Kent.
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Papers by Keith Hayward
Praise from Professor Zygmunt Bauman: "This is not just a book on the present state and possible prospects of our understanding of crime, criminals and our responses to both. However greatly the professional criminologists might benefit from the authors' illuminating insights and the new cognitive vistas their investigations have opened, the impact of this book may well stretch far beyond the realm of criminology proper and mark a watershed in the progress of social study as such. This book, after all, brings into the open the irremediable unclarity, endemic contentiousness and the resulting frailty of the line dividing deviance from the norm of social life - that line being simultaneously a weapon and the prime stake in the construction and servicing of social order."
Featured profiles include:
* Cesare Beccaria
* Nils Christie
* Albert Cohen
* Carol Smart
* W.E.B DuBois
* John Braithwaite
Fifty Key Thinkers in Criminology is an accessible and informative guide that includes helpful cross-referencing and suggestions for further reading. It is of value to all students of criminology as well as of interest to those in related disciplines, such as sociology and criminal justice.
Edited by Jeff Ferrell, Keith Hayward, Wayne Morrison & Mike Presdee
This new title will become the core book on cultural criminology. Cultural Criminology Unleashed brings together cutting edge research across the range of meanings of the term 'cultural' - from anthropology to art, from media analyses to theories of situated meaning. Global in scope, contributions take in the US, UK, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Japan.
A landmark text on the crime-culture nexus, Cultural Criminology Unleashed will be vital reading for academics as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students of criminology/sociology of deviance, penology and criminal justice, as well as cultural studies, media studies, qualitative research methods and sociology. Its editors and authors include the leading exponents of cultural criminology on both sides of the Atlantic.
Contents include: Style, Criminology and Phenomenology; ; Biography and the Excavation of Transgression; The Narrative Gratifications of Street Fighting; Visual Methodologies in Cultural Criminology; Marilyn Manson, Colombine, and Cultural Criminology; New Cultural Approaches to Alcohol and Drug Research; Cultural Resistance to the US Patriot Act; Illegal Street racing and the Seduction of Speed: Shifting Underclass Criminal Identities in Late Modernity; The 'Hillbilly Heroin' Moral Panic; The Commodification of Child Sexual Abuse; Celebrity and Criminality; Cultural Criminology, the City and the Spatial Dynamics of Exclusion; Scrounging the Margins of Legality; Crime Talk in Contemporary Urban Japan ; Graffiti Beyond Subculture; Psycho-social Criminology; Immigrant Ethnicity and the Multi-Cultural Administration of Justice ; Cross-cultural Dynamics of Street Gangs; Masculine Fantasy and the Internet; Voodoo Criminology and the Numbers Game.
About the Editors: Jeff Ferrell, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Texas Christian University, USA; Keith Hayward, School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, University of Kent; Wayne Morrison, Director, External Law Programme, University of London; Mike Presdee, School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, University of Kent.
ISBN: 1 90438 531 1