Cultural Criminology Books

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1. Handbook of Critical Criminology

   Edited by Walter S. DeKeseredy, Molly Dragiewicz

   The 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 world....

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-77967-8 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. The Criminology of Pleasure

   By Mike McGuire, Simon Hallsworth

   The Criminology of Pleasure offers a new way of thinking about crime and crime control, as it maintains that the very rationale of the criminal justice system lies in the channelling of desire and regulating of pleasure. Criminology has only confronted the importance of the desire/pleasure...

   January 2011 | 978-0-415-54778-9 | Hardback (Routledge-Cavendish)

3. Rights of Passage: Sidewalks and the Regulation of Public Flow

   By Nicholas Blomley

   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...

   October 2010 | 978-0-415-57561-4 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Framing Crime: Cultural Criminology and the Image

   Edited by Keith Hayward, 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...

   January 2010 | 978-0-415-45904-4 | Paperback (Routledge-Cavendish)
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   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...

   November 2009 | 978-0-415-46772-8 | Hardback (Routledge-Cavendish)
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   Crime and Media: A Reader

   Edited by Chris Greer

   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...

   August 2009 | 978-0-415-42239-0 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Existentialist Criminology

   Edited by Don 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...

   2008 | 978-0-415-46771-1 | Hardback (Routledge-Cavendish)
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   Violent Femmes: Women as Spies in Popular Culture

   By Rosie White

   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...

   2007 | 978-0-415-37078-3 | Paperback (Routledge)

9. Crime and Punishment in Contemporary Culture

   By Claire Grant

   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...

   2007 | 978-0-415-41409-8 | Paperback (Routledge)
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    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....

    2004 | 978-1-904385-37-0 | Paperback (Routledge-Cavendish)