Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Maggie O'Neill
• Lizzie Seal

Titel

Transgressive Imaginations: Crime, Deviance and Culture

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

London: Palgrave Macmillan

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 01 02 Taking the notion of transgression – the breaking of boundaries – as its starting point, this book brings a fresh approach to cultural criminology by exploring representations of the transgressive in fictive texts and ethnographic research. Chapters focus on topics of urgent contemporary interest, including school shooters, violent female avengers, sex workers, those labelled 'mad', serial killers, asylum seekers and skid row residents. The book is interdisciplinary in scope, blending insights from film and media studies, literary criticism and psycho-social analysis with cultural criminology. It also presents cutting edge, participatory arts-based ethnography carried out in the UK and Canada. 19 02 Examines representations of the 'outsider' in history, art, film, television programmesand literature Explores how fictive texts contribute to popular understandings of 'folk heroes', 'folk devils' and 'moral panics' Includes studies of serial killers, women who kill, the relationship between children and crime, madness, refugees and asylum seekers Interdisciplinary in scope - draws together literary criticism, film and media studies and psycho-social analysis with cultural criminology 08 02 "[This book] clearly locates itself within the field of cultural criminology and makes a distinctive and fresh contribution to the field. Given the authors' trans-disciplinary approach, researchers and students of working in gender, media and film studies will also find a host of important insights here." - British Journal of Criminology 04 02 List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Transgressive Imaginations: Crime, Deviance and Culture Children as Victims and Villains: The School Shooter Violent Female Avengers in Popular Culture Transgressing Sex Work: Ethnography, Film and Fiction Madness and Liminality: Psychosocialand Fictive Images Serial Killers and the Ethics of Representation Outlaws, Borders and Folk Devils Crime, Poverty and Resistance on Skid Row Notes Bibliography Index 13 02 MAGGIE O'NEILL Reader in Criminology at Durham University, UK. Her previous publications include Sex Work Now (co-edited with R. Campbell), Prostitution and Feminism , Prostitution: A Reader (co-edited with R. Matthews), Asylum, Migration and Community and Adorno, Culture and Feminism . LIZZIE SEALLecturer in Criminology at Durham University, UK.Her previous publications include Women, Murder and Femininity: Gender Representations of Women Who Kill . She is currently researching public responses to the death penalty in England and Wales. 02 02 This book focuses upon the breaking of rules and taboos involved in 'doing crime', including violent crime as represented in fictive texts and ethnographic research. It includes chapters on topics of urgent contemporary interest such as asylum seekers, sex work, serial killers, school shooters, crimes of poverty and understandings of 'madness'. 31 02 This book focuses upon the breaking of rules and taboos involved in 'doing crime' through exploring representations of the transgressive in fictive texts and ethnographic research