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

Publication Info. Bingley : Emerald, 2010.

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Edition 1st ed.
Description 1 online resource (xi, 288 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Sociology of crime, law and deviance, 1521-6136 ; 14
Sociology of crime, law, and deviance ; v. 14.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Summary 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.
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Subject Crime in popular culture.
Crime in popular culture.
Crime.
Crime.
Popular culture.
Popular culture.
Social control.
Social control.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Added Author Deflem, Mathieu.
Other Form: Popular culture, crime and social control. 1st ed. Bingley : Emerald, 2010 9781849507325 (OCoLC)495598085
ISBN 9781849507332 (electronic book)
1849507333 (electronic book)
9781849507325 (hardback)
1849507325 (hardback)
Standard No. 9786612552663