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Criminology, Deviance, and the Silver Screen

The Fictional Reality and the Criminological Imagination

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  • © 2010

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  1. Jon Frauley
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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Remarks on Conceptualizing, Analytic Languages, and the Disciplined Imagination

    • Jon Frauley
    Pages 1-29

  3. Criminology and the Fictional Social Reality

    • Jon Frauley
    Pages 31-72

  4. The Criminological Imagination

    • Jon Frauley
    Pages 73-97

  5. Moral Transcendence and Symbolic Interaction in Falling Down

    • Jon Frauley
    Pages 99-121

  6. Subculture and American History X

    • Jon Frauley
    Pages 123-155

  7. Pathology, Power, and Medicalization in K-PAX

    • Jon Frauley
    Pages 157-193

  8. Biopolitics and the Governance of Genetic Capital in GATTACA

    • Jon Frauley
    Pages 195-216

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 217-249
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About this book

This text argues for the usefulness of fictional realities for criminological theorizing and analysis. It illustrates that a creative and critical social scientific practice requires craft norms rather than commercial norms that threaten to completely colonize higher education.

About the author

JON FRAULEY is Assistant Professor of Criminology at the University of Ottawa, Canada.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Criminology, Deviance, and the Silver Screen

  • Book Subtitle: The Fictional Reality and the Criminological Imagination

  • Authors: Jon Frauley

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230115361

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Jon Frauley 2010

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-61516-8Published: 19 January 2011

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-37886-9Published: 19 January 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-11536-1Published: 20 December 2010

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 249

  • Topics: Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Film History, Media Studies

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