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Crime, Prisons and Viscous Culture: Adventures in Criminalized Identities
Finola Farrant
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Description for Crime, Prisons and Viscous Culture: Adventures in Criminalized Identities
Hardback. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JFSR; JHBA; JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 217 x 19. Weight in Grams: 446.
This unique book explores criminalized identities and the idea of 'viscous culture' to provide new understandings of crime, punishment and justice. It shows that viscous culture encourages some of us to become outlaws, monsters or shapeshifters who challenge systems of domination and forces of control. Crime, Prisons and Viscous Culture interweaves analyses of popular culture with extensive empirical research to explore both the glamorous and grotesque nature of crime, control and containment. Through encounters with numerous popular and mythological archetypes the book explores the boundaries of the criminological discipline. Criminology itself is presented as ... Read more
This unique book explores criminalized identities and the idea of 'viscous culture' to provide new understandings of crime, punishment and justice. It shows that viscous culture encourages some of us to become outlaws, monsters or shapeshifters who challenge systems of domination and forces of control. Crime, Prisons and Viscous Culture interweaves analyses of popular culture with extensive empirical research to explore both the glamorous and grotesque nature of crime, control and containment. Through encounters with numerous popular and mythological archetypes the book explores the boundaries of the criminological discipline. Criminology itself is presented as ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Number of Pages
230
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137490094
SKU
V9781137490094
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About Finola Farrant
Finola Farrant is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at University of Roehampton, UK. Prior to academia she worked as a criminal justice practitioner, researcher and in policy and campaigns. Her main areas of research interest include: penology, popular culture, gender and identity, and life story methodologies.
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