Cultural Criminology and the Carnival of Crime
Publisher: Routledge
Published: January 8, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780415239097
First sentence: Above all else this book is concerned with the criminalisation of everyday life and the meanings of crime.
Description: This text examines the criminalization of cultural practices in Britain. It reworks the senseless act and explores the performance of crime and violence as cultural commodity to be consumed by a society anxious for new experiences.