This volume contains contributions on the theme of popular culture, crime, and social control. The chapters in this volume tease out various criminologically relevant issues, pertaining to crime/deviance and/or the control thereof, on the basis of an analysis of various aspects and manifestations of popular culture, including music, movies, television, paintings, sculptures, photographs, cartoons, and the internet-based audio-visual materials that are presently available. Thematically diverse within the province of criminology, the chapters in this book are not restricted in terms of theoretical approach and methodological orientation. Using a variety of methodological and theoretical perspectives, the volume is diverse in addressing dimensions of popular culture in relation to important criminological questions.
List of Contributors.
Introduction: The criminology of popular culture.
Reefer Madness and beyond.
The Dark Knight: Constructing Images of Good vs. Evil in an Age of Anxiety.
Superhero justice: The depiction of crime and justice in modern-age comic books and graphic novels.
Televised images of jail: Lessons in controlling the unruly.
"I broke the law? No, the law broke me!" Palestinian hip-hop and the semiotics of occupation.
Rap music's violent and misogynistic effects: Fact or fiction?.
Crime, resistance and song: Black musicianship's black criminology.
The different sounds of American protest: From freedom songs to punk rock.
Evil monsters and cunning perverts: Representing and regulating the dangerous paedophile.
Framing the scene: presentations of forensics programming in the news.
Beach crime in popular culture: Confining the carnivalesque in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil.
Here be dragons: Lombroso, the gothic, and social control.
Index.
Sociology of crime, law and deviance.
Popular Culture, Crime and Social Control.
Copyright page.
