E-book
Popular culture, crime and social control
Record details
- ISBN: 1849507325 (hbk.)
- ISBN: 9781849507325 (hbk.)
- ISBN: 1849507333 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9781849507332 (electronic bk.)
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xi, 288 p.) : ill.
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electronic resource - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: Bingley : Emerald, 2010.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | CatMonthString:jan.13 Multi-User. CatBulkString:jan.03.13 |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction: the criminology of popular culture / Mathieu Deflem -- Reefer Madness and beyond / Susan Boyd -- The Dark Knight: constructing images of good vs. evil in an age of anxiety / Nickie D. Phillips -- Superhero justice: the depiction of crime and justice in modern-age comic books and graphic novels / Bradford W. Reyns and Billy Henson -- Televised images of jail: lessons in controlling the unruly / Dawn K. Cecil -- "I broke the law? No, the law broke me!" Palestinian hip-hop and the semiotics of occupation / Judah Schept -- Rap music's violent and misogynistic effects: fact or fiction? / Charis E. Kubrin and Ronald Weitzer -- Crime resistance and song: black musicianship is black criminology / Viviane Saleh-Hanna -- The different sounds of American protest: from freedom songs to punk rock / Ellen C. Leichtman -- Evil monsters and cunning perverts: representing and regulating the dangerous paedophile / Anneke Meyer -- Framing the scene: presentations of forensics programming in the news / Gregory G. Justis and Steven Chermak -- Beach crime in popular culture: confining the carnivalesque in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil / Stephanie C. Kane -- Here be dragons: Lombroso, the gothic, and social control / Nicole Rafter and Per Ystehede. |
| Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note: | Access restricted by subscription. Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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| Subject: | Popular culture Crime SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology Popular culture Crime in popular culture Social control Crime Social control |
| Genre: | Electronic books. |
