50 Dark Destinations

Crime and Contemporary Tourism

Buch | Softcover

424 Seiten

2023
Policy Press (Verlag)
9781447362197 (ISBN)

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From the Alcatraz East Crime Museum to Jack the Ripper guided tours, 'dark tourism' is now a multi-million-pound global industry. Highlighting 50 travel destinations across six continents, expert criminologists, psychologists and historians expose a worrying trend in contemporary consumer culture in which many of us partake.

From the Alcatraz East Crime Museum and Jack the Ripper guided tours to the Phnom Penh killing fields, ‘dark tourism’ is now a multi-million-pound global industry. Even in the most pleasant tourist destinations, underlying harms are constantly perpetuated, affecting both consumers and those who work or live around such tourist hotspots. Highlighting 50 travel destinations across six continents, expert criminologists, psychologists and historians explore the past and contemporary issues which we often disregard during our everyday leisure.

This captivating book is the ‘go-to’ guide for anyone interested in crime and deviance-related tourism. Accessible and digestible, it exposes a worrying trend in contemporary consumer culture, in which many of us partake.

Adam Lynes is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Birmingham City University. Craig Kelly is Lecturer in Criminology at Birmingham City University. James Treadwell is Professor in Criminology at Staffordshire University.

Introduction - Adam Lynes, Craig Kelly and James Treadwell

1. Cocaine Bear: Lexington, Kentucky, USA - Travis Linnemann

2. Whitney Plantation: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA - Thomas Raymen

3. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution: Washington DC, USA - Alice Storey

4. From Newgate Prison to Tyburn Tree: the Old Bailey, London, UK - Peter Joyce and Wendy Laverick

5. Jack the Ripper Tour: Whitechapel, London, UK - Kevin Hoffin

6. The Alcatraz East Crime Museum: Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, USA - Laura Hammond

7. The Museum of Death: Hollywood, Los Angeles, USA - Loukas Ntanos

8. The Royal Armouries Museum: Leeds, UK - Sarah Jones

9. The Black Dahlia tour: Los Angeles, California, USA - David Wilson

10. The Execution Dock: Wapping, East London, UK - Wendy Laverick and Peter Joyce

11. Auschwitz: Oświęcim, Poland - Tammy Ayres and Sarah Hodgkinson

12. Jeju 4:3 memorial: Jeju Island, South Korea - Robin West

13. Museum Dr. Guislain: Ghent, Belgium - Sophie Gregory

14. Karosta Prison Hotel: Liepāja, Latvia - Melindy Duffus

15. The Clink prison-based restaurant: Brixton, London, UK - Dan Rusu

16. The 9/11 memorial and museum: New York, New York, USA - John Bahadur Lamb

17. The Tuol Sleng Museum of Genocidal Crimes: Phnom Penh, Cambodia - Eamonn Carrabine

18. Choeung Ek killing field: Phnom Penh, Cambodia - Luke Telford

19. Blue lights in the Red Light District: Amsterdam, the Netherlands - Ben Colliver

20. Trophy hunting: sub-Saharan Africa - Patrick Berry and Gary R. Potter

21. 'The ugly side to the beautiful game': Qatar - Grace Gallacher

22. Burning Man festival: Black Rock Desert, Nevada, USA - Keith Hayward

23. Magaluf: Majorca - Simon Winlow

24. 'Holiday Hooters': Hong Kong - Katie Lowe

25. Scilla: Calabria, Italy - Anna Sergi

26. The Kray twins tours: London, UK - Craig Ancrum

27. Backpacking in the outback: Uluru, Northern Territory, Australia - Eveleigh Buck-Matthews and Craig Kelly

28. The hippie trail: Nepal, South Asia - Emiline Smith

29. The Museum of Confiscated Art: Brest, Belarus - Donna Yates and Hannah London

30. Steroid holidays: Sharm El Sheikh, Sinai Peninsula, Egypt - Nick Gibbs

31. The Souks: Tunis, Tunisia - Kyla Bavin and James Treadwell

32. Mezhyhirya Residence Museum: Novi Petrivtsi, Ukraine - Tereza Østbø Kuldova and Jardar Østbø

33. The great British seaside: various locations, UK - Neil Chakraborti

34. The Biggie mural: Brooklyn, New York, USA - Natasha Pope

35. The Rebus guided tour: Edinburgh, UK - Ian R. Cook and Michael Rowe

36. Volunteer tourism - 'doing it for the 'gram': Cambodia, Southeast Asia - Orlando Woods

37. The Staycation: home - Jack Denham

38. The 'suicide forest': Aokigahara, Japan - Max Hart

39. Pitcairn Island: Pitcairn Islands, Pacific Ocean - Steve Wadley

40. Favela tours: Rio De Janerio, Brazil - Duncan Frankis and Selina Patel Nascimento

41. Skid Row walking tours: Los Angeles, California, USA - Craig Kelly

42. The 2019-2020 anti-extradition protests: Hong Kong - Jane Richards

43. The Maldives: Republic of Maldives, Indian Ocean - Emiline Smith and Oliver Smith

44. Death Road: La Paz to Coroico, Bolivia - Joe Garrihy

45. Vulture brains and muthi markets: Johannesburg, South Africa - Angus Nurse

46. Dark Tourism, ecocide and alpine ski resorts: the Alps, Europe - Oliver Smith

47. Boho Zone: Middlesbrough, UK - Emma Winlow

48. One Hyde Park: London, UK - Rowland Atkinson

49. Amazon warehouse tours: Rugeley, UK or virtual tour - Adam Lynes

50. Disney World: Orlando, Florida, USA - Anthony Lloyd

Conclusion - Adam Lynes, Craig Kelly and James Treadwell

Erscheinungsdatum	20.02.2023
Co-Autor	Alice Storey, Angus Nurse, Anna Sergi, Anthony Lloyd, Ben Colliver
Zusatzinfo	5 Illustrations, black and white
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9781447362197 / 9781447362197
Zustand	Neuware