Editors:
- Explores a diverse range of topics within the field of popular culture, including TV series, biker gangs, and racialization and islamophobia
- Draws upon primary research
- Appeals broadly to those interested in criminology, sociology of deviance, social anthropology, socio-legal studies, media studies, cultural studies, television studies, sports studies and linguistics
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Crime, Media and Culture (PSCMC)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Twenty-First-Century Fictional Detective
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Negotiating Gender Expectations and Sexual Mores through Popular Culture
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True Crime and the Quest for Justice
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Mainstreaming Deviant Subcultures
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Racialisation, Islamophobia and Popular Culture
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About this book
This book explores the links between crime, deviance and popular culture in our highly-mediatised era, offering an insight into the cultural processes through which particular practices acquire a criminal or deviant status, and come to be seen as social problems. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, the edited collection brings together international scholars across various areas of specialisation to provide an up-to-date analysis of some important and topical issues in 21st-century popular culture. The chapters look at different aspects of popular culture, including fictional detective narratives and the true crime genre, popular media constructions of sexual deviance and Islamophobia, sports, graffiti and outlaw biker subcultures. The authors examine a wide range of relevant case studies through a number of crime and deviance-related theories. Crime, Deviance and Popular Culture will be of importance to scholars and students across several disciplines, including criminology, sociology of deviance, social anthropology, media studies, cultural studies, television studies and linguistics.
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Editors and Affiliations
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School of Law, Criminal Justice & Computing, Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, UK
Dimitris Akrivos
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School of Law, University of Essex, Colchester, UK
Alexandros K. Antoniou
About the editors
Dimitris Akrivos is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the School of Law, Criminal Justice and Computing of Canterbury Christ Church University, UK.
Alexandros K. Antoniou is Lecturer in Media Law at the School of Law, University of Essex, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Crime, Deviance and Popular Culture
Book Subtitle: International and Multidisciplinary Perspectives
Editors: Dimitris Akrivos, Alexandros K. Antoniou
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Crime, Media and Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04912-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-04911-9Published: 05 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-04912-6Published: 28 January 2019
Series ISSN: 2946-3912
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3920
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 343
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations
Topics: Crime and the Media, Sociology of Culture, Media Sociology, Popular Culture, Crime and Society