Making Trouble: Cultural Constraints of Crime, Deviance, and Control (Social Problems and Social Issues) - Softcover

Ferrell, Jeff

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0202306186 ISBN 13: 9780202306186

Publisher: Aldine Transaction, 1999

Synopsis

In Making Trouble leading scholars in criminology, sociology, criminal justice, women's studies, and social history explore the mediated cultural dynamics that construct images and understanding of crime, deviance, and control. Contributors examine the intertwined practices of the mass media, criminal justice agencies, political power holders, and criminal and deviant subcultures in producing and consuming contested representations of legality and illegality. While the collection provides broad analysis of contemporary topics, it also weaves this analysis around a set of innovative and unifying themes. These include the emergence of "situated media" within and between the various subcultures of crime, deviance, and control; the evolution of policing and social control as complex webs of mediated and symbolic meaning; the role of power, identity, and indifference in framing contemporary crime controversies, with special attention paid to the gendered construction of crime, deviance and control; and the importance of historical and cross-cultural dynamics in shaping understandings of crime, deviance, and control.

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Jeff Ferrell

Edition details

• Publisher: Aldine Transaction
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0202306186
• ISBN 13: 9780202306186
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 390