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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Presdee, Mike, 1944-
Format: Government Document Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
Subjects:
Crime > Sociological aspects.
Criminology.
Deviant behavior.
Subculture.
Pleasure > Social aspects.
Criminology
Criminalité > Aspect sociologique.
Criminologie.
Plaisir > Aspect social.
criminology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
Crime > Sociological aspects
Deviant behavior
Pleasure > Social aspects
Subculture
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction
  • pt. I Analysis
  • 2. Cultural criminology
  • 3. From carnival to the carnival of crime / Mike Presdee / Gavin Carver
  • 4. Commodification, consumption and crime
  • pt. II Context
  • 5. Hurt, humiliation and crime as popular pleasure
  • 6. criminalisation of consent: the case of S & M
  • 7. Rap and rave and the criminalisation of youth
  • 8. carnival and the performing of crime: young people, knives and other weapons
  • 9. Senseless acts: the harbouring and harvesting of hate.

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