Cultural Criminology Books

New and Published Books

1. Policing Images

   By Rob Mawby

   In recent years the police have become one of the most watched and most visible organisations, and across the media there has been constant interest in the police. In such a situation the police themselves have been intensely concerned with promoting, projecting and protecting the police image....

   Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge
2. Routledge Handbook of Critical Criminology

   Edited by Walter S. DeKeseredy, Molly Dragiewicz

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   The Routledge Handbook of Critical Criminology is a collection of original essays specifically designed to offer students, faculty, policy makers, and others an in-depth overview of the most up-to-date empirical, theoretical, and political contributions made by critical criminologists around the...

   Published October 25th 2011 by Routledge
3. Rights of Passage

   Sidewalks and the Regulation of Public Flow

   By Nicholas Blomley

   Series: Social Justice

   Rights of Passage: Sidewalks and the Regulation of Public Flow documents a powerful and under-researched form of urban governance that focuses on pedestrian flow. This logic, which Nicholas Blomley terms 'pedestrianism', values public space not in terms of its aesthetic merits, or its success in...

   Published October 5th 2011 by Routledge
4. Radicalization

   The Life Writings of Political Prisoners

   By Melissa Dearey

   Expanding the influence of auto/biography studies into cultural criminology, Radicalization: The Life Writings of Political Prisoners addresses the origins, processes and cultures of terrorist criminality and political resistance in a globalized world. Criminologists and penologists have long been...

   Published July 29th 2011 by Routledge-Cavendish
5. Existentialist Criminology

   Edited by Donald J Crewe, Ronnie Lippens

   Existentialist Criminology captures an emerging interest in the value of existentialist thought and concepts for criminological work on crime, deviance, crime control, and criminal justice. This emerging interest chimes with recent social and cultural developments - as well as shifts in their...

   Published July 25th 2011 by Routledge-Cavendish
6. Framing Crime

   Cultural Criminology and the Image

   Edited by Keith Hayward, the late Mike Presdee

   In a world in which media images of crime and deviance proliferate, where every facet of offending is reflected in a ‘vast hall of mirrors’, Framing Crime: Cultural Criminology and the Image makes sense of the increasingly blurred line between the real and the virtual. Images of crime and crime...

   Published January 26th 2010 by Routledge-Cavendish
7. Crime and Media

   A Reader

   Edited by Chris Greer

   Series: Routledge Student Readers

   This engaging and timely collection gathers together for the first time key and classic readings in the ever-expanding area of crime and media. Comprizing a carefully distilled selection of the most important contributions to the field, Crime and Media: A Reader tackles a wide range of issues...

   Published August 31st 2009 by Routledge
8. Violent Femmes

   Women as Spies in Popular Culture

   By Rosie White

   Series: Transformations

   The female spy has long exerted a strong grip on the popular imagination. With reference to popular fiction, film and television Violent Femmes examines the figure of the female spy as a nexus of contradictory ideas about femininity, power, sexuality and national identity. Fictional representations...

   Published October 24th 2007 by Routledge
9. Crime and Punishment in Contemporary Culture

   By Claire Grant

   Series: International Library of Sociology

   Today, questions about how and why societies punish are deeply emotive and hotly contested. In Crime and Punishment in Contemporary Culture, Claire Grant argues that criminal justice is a key site for the negotiation of new collective identities and modes of belonging. Exploring both popular...

   Published June 6th 2007 by Routledge
10. Cultural Criminology Unleashed

    Edited by Jeff Ferrell, Keith Hayward, Wayne Morrison, Mike Presdee

    This book brings together cutting-edge research across the range of meanings of the term 'cultural'. A landmark text on the crime-culture nexus, its editors and authors include the leading exponents of cultural criminology on both sides of the Atlantic....

    Published November 14th 2004 by Routledge-Cavendish