1st Edition

City Limits Crime, Consumer Culture and the Urban Experience

By Keith Hayward Copyright 2004
270 Pages
by Routledge-Cavendish

280 Pages
by Routledge-Cavendish

270 Pages
by Routledge-Cavendish

City Limits contributes to a growing body of work under the umbrella of 'cultural criminology', which attempts to bring an appreciation of cultural change to an understanding of crime in late modernity (Hayward and Young 2004). Hayward presents an ambitious theoretical analysis that attempts to inspire a 'cultural approach' to understanding the 'crime-city nexus' and, in particular, to... Read more
Introduction; Imagining the Urban Experience; City Life at Modernity's Edge: A Tour d'Horizon; The Forgotten City and the Lost Offender; Fear and Desire in Los Angeles; Crime, Consumer Culture and the Urban Experience; Conclusion.

Biography

Keith Hayward