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International Conference on Cultural Criminology (1st : 2003 : London, England)
Imprint:London : GlassHouse, 2004.
Descriptionxiii, 321 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Note:"The seeds of Cultural criminology unleashed were first sown at a small conference held at the University of London's Chancellor's Hall in the late spring of 2003"--Acknowledgements.
Note:Fragments of a manifesto: introducing Cultural Criminology Unleashed /Jeff Ferrell, Keith Hayward, Wayne Morrison, Mike Presdee -- Part 1. THEORISING CRIME, CULTURE, AND CRIMINOLOGY: 1. Voodoo criminology and the numbers game / Jock Young -- 2. From cultural studies to psychosocial criminology: an intellectual journey / Tony Jefferson -- 3. The story of crime: biography and the excavation of transgression / Mike Presdee -- 4. Phenomenology, cultural criminology and the return to astonishment / Jonathan Wender -- 5. Style matters / Jeff Ferrell -- Part 2. ACROSS THE BORDERS OF CRIME AND CULTURE: 6. Lombroso and the birth of criminological positivism: scientific mastery or cultural artifice? / Wayne Morrison -- 7. Crime, ethnicity and the multicultural administration of justice / Frank Bovenkerk, Yucel Yesilgöz -- 8. Cultural criminology and engagement with race, gender and post-colonial identities / Chris Cunneen, Julie Stubbs -- 9. Crime, media and community: grief and virtual engagement in late modernity / Chris Greer -- Part 3. MARGINAL IMAGES: 10. Collisions of culture and crime: media commodificadtion of child sexual abuse / Karin Schofield -- 11. Cultural constructions of the hillbilly heroin and crime problem / Kenneth D. Tunnell -- 12. Criminalising marginality and resistance: Marilyn Manson, Columbine and cultural criminology / Stephen L. Muzzatti -- Part 4. BREAKING OPEN THE CITY: 13. Space: the final frontier: criminology, the city and spatial dynamics of exclusion / Keith Hayward -- 14. Scrunge city / Jeff Ferrell -- 15. The desert of imagination in the city of signs: cultural implications of sponsored transgression and branded graffiti / Heitor Alvelos -- 16. "Crime talk" and crime control in contemporary urban Japan / Mark Fenwick -- Part 5. TERMS OF ENGAGEMENT: 17. Drug and alcohol research: the case for cultural criminology / Fiona Measham -- 18. Crime, culture and visual methodologies: ethno-mimesis as performative praxis / Maggie O'Neill -- 19. Taking a beating: the narrative gratifications of fighting as an underdog / Curtis Jackson-Jacobs -- 20. Stories from the streets: some fieldwork notes on the seduction of speed / Heli Vaaranen, with Mike Presdee -- Part 6. QUESTIONS OF AGENCY AND CONTROL: 21. Speed kills / Jeff Ferrell -- 22. What happenedd to the pathological gang? Notes from a case study of the Latin Kings and Queens in New York / David C. Brotherton -- 23. Barbarians at the gate: crime and violence in the breakdown of the pseudo-pacification process / Steve Hall, Simon Winlow -- 24. The USA Patriot Act and the politics of fear / Mark S. Hamm.
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