Transgressive imaginations: crime, deviance and culture

This book focuses upon the breaking of rules and taboos involved in 'doing crime', including violent crime as represented in fictive texts and ethnographicresearch. It includes chapters on topics of urgent contemporary interest suchas asylum seekers, sex work, serial killers, school shooters, crimes of poverty and understandings of 'madness'. 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. INDICE: 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 -

• ISBN: 978-0-230-57784-8
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 192
• Fecha Publicación: 16/03/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés