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Popular culture, crime and social control /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Deflem, Mathieu
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bingley : Emerald, 2010.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Sociology of crime, law, and deviance ; v. 14.
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  • Introduction: the criminology of popular culture / Mathieu Deflem
  • 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
  • "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
  • 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.