Transgressive Imaginations [electronic resource] : Crime, Deviance and Culture /
O'Neill, M.author.
Seal, L.author.
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'.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; 1 Exploring the Transgressive Imagination; 2 Children as Victims and Villains: The School Shooter; 3 Violent Female Avengers in Popular Culture; 4 Transgressing Sex Work: Ethnography, Film and Fiction; 5 Madness and Liminality: Psychosocial and Fictive Images; 6 Serial Killers and the Ethics of Representation; 7 Outlaws, Borders and Folk Devils; 8 Crime, Poverty and Resistance on Skid Row; Postscript; Notes; References; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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'.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Criminology.
Crime—Sociological aspects.
Literature—History and criticism.
Motion pictures and television.
Sociology.
Regional and Cultural Studies.
Criminology and Criminal Justice, general.
Crime and Society.
Literary History.
Screen Studies.
Sociology, general.