Transgressive Imaginations

Crime, Deviance and Culture

• Author(s): M. O'Neill, L. Seal,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 187
• ISBN_10: 0230369065
  ISBN_13: 9780230369061
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Social Science / General , Social Science / Criminology , Literary Criticism / General , Performing Arts / General , Social Science / Sociology / General , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social ,

Description:... 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'.