商品簡介
The chapters in this volume discuss criminologically relevant issues, both in connection with crime or deviance as well as the control thereof, on the basis of an analysis of a variety of aspects of popular culture. Among the manifestations of popular culture that are addressed in the chapters are such diverse artistic and cultural expressions an movies, television, cartoons. rap and punk music, news media, and literature. Thematically diverse within the broad domain of the study of crime and social control, the chapters in this book offer an exciting look into the theroetical breadth and thematical and methdological range of criminological studies on popular culture to show how the various worlds of entertainment are permeated by themes of crime and justice.
