Cultural Criminology - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1555532365 ISBN 13: 9781555532369

Publisher: Northeastern University Press, 1995

Synopsis

This pioneering collection of provocative essays focuses on collective behaviors organized around imagery, style, and symbolic meaning, and considers the ways in which legal and political authorities and the mass media construct these behaviors as criminal. Arguing for the development of a new cultural criminology, the contributors examine a wide range of social and cultural phenomena such as the politics of worldwide urban graffiti and the interplay of skinhead violence and musical style. On the cutting edge of contemporary theory, Cultural Criminology maps directions for further exploration in this emerging synthesis of criminological and cultural studies.

About this title

About the Author:

Jeff Ferrell is Professor of Sociology, Texas Christian University, USA and Visiting Professor at Kent University, UK and Keith Hayward is Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Director of Studies for Criminology at Kent University, UK.

About this edition

• Publisher: Northeastern University Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 1555532365
• ISBN 13: 9781555532369
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448
• Editor: Sanders Clinton R., Ferrell Jeff