Overview
- Advances the idea of viscous culture and its relevance for criminology
- Explores the transdisciplinary nature of criminology
- Based on extensive empirical research with participants
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Once Upon a Time
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Criminalized Lifestyles
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Prison Experiences
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Becoming an Ex-Prisoner
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Conclusion
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About this book
This unique book explores criminalized identities and the idea of 'viscous culture' to provide new understandings of crime, punishment and justice. It shows that viscous culture encourages some of us to become outlaws, monsters or shapeshifters who challenge systems of domination and forces of control.
Crime, Prisons and Viscous Culture interweaves analyses of popular culture with extensive empirical research to explore both the glamorous and grotesque nature of crime, control and containment. Through encounters with numerous popular and mythological archetypes the book explores the boundaries of the criminological discipline. Criminology itself is presented as fragmented, distorted and fascinating, and the important transdisciplinary potential of criminology is highlighted. In doing so, this book will be of great interest to scholars of criminology, cultural studies, popular culture and sociological theory.
Reviews
“Crime, Prisons and Viscous Culture is an “unapologetically eclectic” read that, like the shapeshifting identities it explores, defies conventional categorization. In her careful examination of the points where crime meets popular culture in the narratives of convicted offenders, Finola Farrant takes us on a dazzling journey through myth, movies, fairytales and folklore. Erudite, ambitious, lively and continually thought-provoking, this is a rare academic work that grips your attention from beginning to end.” (Yvonne Jewkes, Research Professor in Criminology, University of Brighton, UK)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Crime, Prisons and Viscous Culture
Book Subtitle: Adventures in Criminalized Identities
Authors: Finola Farrant
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-49010-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-49009-4Published: 27 December 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-49010-0Published: 16 December 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 230
Topics: Prison and Punishment, Crime and Society, Criminological Theory, Gender Studies, Sociology of Culture, Research Methodology