Cultural criminology and the carnival of crime / Mike Presdee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Presdee, Mike, 1944-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crime--Sociological aspects.

Crime.

Criminology.

Deviant behavior.

Subculture.

Pleasure--Social aspects.

Pleasure.

Physical Description:

viii, 182 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.

Summary:

Cultural Criminology and the Carnival of Crime attempts to make sense of the current increase in violence, cruelty, hate and humiliation which has come to permeate daily life. This text argues that an overly-organized economic world has provoked a widespread desire for extreme, oppositional forms of popular and personal pleasure. This desire has resulted in a cathartic "second life" of illicit pleasures often deemed criminal by those in power. Amongst the exciting issues Mike Presdee addresses are: joyriding, street crime, antisocial behavior in private via the internet, hate, hurt and humiliation in popular culture, and the popularization and criminalization of sadomasochism and dance music cultures.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [165]-175) and index.

ISBN:

0415239095

0415239109

OCLC:

43978090