Imagining crime : textual outlaws and criminal conversations / Alison Young.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Young, Alison, 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criminology--Philosophy.

Criminology.

Crime--Public opinion.

Crime.

Physical Description:

viii, 230 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage, 1996.

Summary:

This book offers an original and challenging reading of the 'crimino-legal complex' - criminology, criminal justice, criminal law, the media and everyday experiences - in the light of cultural studies and feminist theory. Through an exploration of the crisis engendered by the failure of the crimino-legal complex to solve the problems of crime and criminality, Alison Young exposes the cultural dimension of its institutions and practices. She analyzes the far-reaching effects of the cultural value given to crime, showing it to be rooted in a powerful nexus of the body, language, the community and everyday life. Imagining Crime examines a number of key events and issues which have signalled shifts in the representation of crime. These include: criminology's resistance to feminist intervention; the pleasures of reading detective fiction; ambiguities of victimization and social justice in the city; sacrificial structures in the law's response to conjugal homicide; policing the ethnicity of the 'illegal' immigrant; defensive responses to the limits of representation in the Bulger affair; the governmental strategies of campaigns against single mothers; and the fatalism of the spectacle of HIV/AIDS in criminal justice policy.

Notes:

Bibliography: pages [214]-226.

Includes index.

ISBN:

080398622X

0803986238

OCLC:

34296393