ABSTRACT
This book brings together cutting-edge research across the range of meanings of the term 'cultural'. A landmark text on the crime-culture nexus, its editors and authors include the leading exponents of cultural criminology on both sides of the Atlantic.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Part 1 Theorising Crime, Culture, and Criminology
part |2 pages
Part 2 Across the Borders of Crime and Culture
chapter 6|14 pages
Lombroso and the Birth of Criminological Positivism: Scientific Mastery or Cultural Artifice?
Introduction: learning lessons from the spectacle of seduction
part |2 pages
Part 3 Marginal Images
chapter 11|10 pages
Cultural Constructions of the Hillbilly Heroin and Crime Problem
Introduction: constructing the problem
part |2 pages
Part 4 Breaking Open the City
chapter 16|12 pages
‘Crime Talk’ and Crime Control in Contemporary Urban Japan
Introduction: Japan as a ‘low crime culture’
part |2 pages
Part 5 Terms of Engagement
chapter 19|14 pages
Taking a Beating: The Narrative Gratifications of Fighting as an Underdog
Introduction: culture, criminology, and brawling in Tucson
chapter 20|4 pages
Stories from the Streets: Some Fieldwork Notes on the Seduction of Speed
Introduction: telling stories about night-time car racing in Helsinki
part |2 pages
Part 6 Questions of Agency and Control
