Critical Criminological Perspectives: Crime, Deviance and Culture

O'Neill, M.; Seal, L.

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'.

Details

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2012-05-11

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780230577848

DOI: 10.1057/9780230369061

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 187