Overview

Cultural criminology has now emerged as a distinct theoretical perspective, and as a notable intellectual alternative to certain aspects of contemporary criminology. Cultural criminology attempts to theorize the interplay of cultural processes, media practices, and crime; the emotional and embodied dimensions of crime and victimization; the particular characteristics of crime within late modern/late capitalist culture; and the role of criminology itself in constructing the reality of crime. In this sense cultural criminology not only offers innovative theoretical models for making sense of crime, criminality, and crime control, but presents as well a critical theory of criminology as a field of study. This collection is designed to highlight each of these dimensions of cultural criminology - its theoretical foundations, its current theoretical trajectories, and its broader theoretical critiques-by presenting the best of cultural criminological work from the United States, Europe, Australia, and elsewhere.

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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 David Matza, Gresham M. Sykes, Howard S. Becker, Stan Cohen, John Clarke, Stuart Hall, Tony Jefferson, Brian Roberts, Jack Katz, Jeff Ferrell, Jock Young, Stephanie Kane, Keith Hayward, Alison Young, Michelle Brown, Mike Davis, Gregory Snyder, Stephen Lyng, Mike Presdee, Katja Franko Aas Mitchell L. Bracey Jr, Majid Yar, Steve Hall, Simon Winlow.

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