Culture, crime and punishment / Ronald Kramer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kramer, Ronald (Senior lecturer), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crime--Sociological aspects.

Crime.

Physical Description:

x, 196 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Macmillan Education, 2021.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Cultural approaches to crime and punishment

The structure of the book

1. Theoretical foundations

Introduction

Positivist criminology: Theories of crime and punishment

Radical constructivism

Sociological criminology: Theories of crime

Robert Merton and Albert Cohen: Crime as resolution

David Matza and Gresham Sykes: Subterranean values

The Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS): Subcultural resistance

Howard Becker: Crime as a label

Reverberations within cultural criminology: Criminalised behaviour

Sociological criminology and the problem of punishment

Howard Becker redux: Rule enforcers and moral entrepreneurs

Hall and colleagues: Class structure, constructions of deviance and policing crisis

Edwin Lemert and Stan Cohen: Secondary deviance and amplification

Reverberations within cultural criminology: Punishment and social control

Some lingering doubts and unresolved problems

2. Methodological approaches and the politics of research

Positivist criminology: Methodological predilections and political values

Cultural criminology: The quest for meaning

Ethnography

Textual analysis

The politics of cultural criminology

`Nothing new to see here': Pat Carlen and Dale Spencer

Conclusion

3. The concept of culture and criminalised behaviour

Culture of poverty arguments

Poverty of dominant cultures: The problem of concurrent inclusion and exclusion

The escapism of edgework and the carnival

Crime as project: Restoring one's moral universe and meaningful political engagements

4. Critiques of cultural criminology on crime

Feminist theory, criminology and cultural criminology

The ideological import of `resistant subcultures': Critical Marxism and the neglect of `foresight'

Can the `resistance thesis' be rescued?

Is cultural criminology without a concept of culture?

Can the duality of culture be resolved?

5. The framing of crime and social control efforts

Ideology

Discourse

Moral panics

Loops and spirals

6. Consuming crime and punishment

Making sense of the media: Types, the factual and the fictional, a powerful socio-cultural institution

Media types and forms of content

`Fact and fiction' or `fact/fiction'?

Media performance debates: Serving the public or adjuncts of power and authority?

The conservative view: Media as corrosive of social order

Irrational fear and punitiveness

`Collective realities': The `rational' kernel within media distortion

Malicious media: The reproduction of power asymmetries

Media and power

Media as commodity: Production processes, victimisation, exploitation

Modes of resistance: `Creative crimes' and `newsmaking criminology'

7. Culture and punishment

Freeing punishment from crime: Georg Rusche and Otto Kirchheimer

Capital versus discourse: Cultures of control

Two Durkheimian models: Reinforcing moral boundaries and pollution crises

Kai Erikson and the reinforcement of cultural order

Philip Smith and the cultural regulation of punishment techniques

Feminist interventions: From `culture and punishment' to `culture/punishment'

8. Criminal justice and new policies on crime control

A general note on recent trends in criminal justice policy

`Mandatory sentencing' or `sentencing guidelines', and `truth in sentencing'

`Preventive detention' and `sexual predator laws'

The `war on drugs' (and, more broadly, adopting a `war mentality' in relation to crime)

`Broken windows' and `zero-tolerance policing'

The peculiarity of punitive policy

Media and public policy

Penal populism

The new penology and neoliberal state-crafting

References.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781352010862

1352010860

9781352010824

1352010828

OCLC:

1197745238