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Crime, Prisons and Viscous Culture

Adventures in Criminalized Identities

Finola Farrant (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

230 Seiten

2016 | 1st ed. 2017
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-49009-4 (ISBN)

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This unique book explores criminalized identities and the idea of 'viscous culture' to provide new understandings of crime, punishment and justice. It shows that viscous culture encourages some of us to become outlaws, monsters or shapeshifters who challenge systems of domination and forces of control.

Crime, Prisons and Viscous Culture interweaves analyses of popular culture with extensive empirical research to explore both the glamorous and grotesque nature of crime, control and containment. Through encounters with numerous popular and mythological archetypes the book explores the boundaries of the criminological discipline. Criminology itself is presented as fragmented, distorted and fascinating, and the important transdisciplinary potential of criminology is highlighted. In doing so, this book will be of great interest to scholars of criminology, cultural studies, popular culture and sociological theory.

Finola Farrant is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at University of Roehampton, UK. Prior to academia she worked as a criminal justice practitioner, researcher and in policy and campaigns. Her main areas of research interest include: penology, popular culture, gender and identity, and life story methodologies.

Part I. Once Upon a Time.- Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Word Up! Mythology Through to Popular Culture.- Chapter 3. Introducing the Men.- Part II. Criminalized Lifestyles.- Chapter 4. Outlaws and Gangsters.- Chapter 5. Lone Ranger, Robin Hood, The Wild One and Ghetto Supastar.- Part III. Prison Experiences.- Chapter 6. Comics and the Gothic.- Chapter 7. Ghosts, Monsters and Hulk.- Part IV. Becoming a Prisoner.- Chapter 8. Shapeshifting Identities.- Chapter 9. Metamorphosis, Trickster and Werewolf.- Part 5. Conclusion.- Chapter 10. Towards a Viscous Understanding of Culture.

Erscheinungsdatum	12.01.2017
Zusatzinfo	XIV, 230 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
Schlagworte	criminal justice • Criminology • Gender • Identity • Life Story • Methodology • Mythology • Penology • popular culture • Prisons • punishment • Research methods • Storytelling
ISBN-10	1-137-49009-8 / 1137490098
ISBN-13	978-1-137-49009-4 / 9781137490094
Zustand	Neuware