Crime, Deviance and Popular Culture
International and Multidisciplinary Perspectives
Editors: Akrivos, Dimitris, Antoniou, Alexandros K. (Eds.)
Free Preview- Explores a diverse range of topics within the field of popular culture, including TV series, biker gangs, and racialization and islamophobia
- Draws upon primary research
- Appeals broadly to those interested in criminology, sociology of deviance, social anthropology, socio-legal studies, media studies, cultural studies, television studies, sports studies and linguistics
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This book explores the links between crime, deviance and popular culture in our highly-mediatised era, offering an insight into the cultural processes through which particular practices acquire a criminal or deviant status, and come to be seen as social problems. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, the edited collection brings together international scholars across various areas of specialisation to provide an up-to-date analysis of some important and topical issues in 21st-century popular culture. The chapters look at different aspects of popular culture, including fictional detective narratives and the true crime genre, popular media constructions of sexual deviance and Islamophobia, sports, graffiti and outlaw biker subcultures. The authors examine a wide range of relevant case studies through a number of crime and deviance-related theories. Crime, Deviance and Popular Culture will be of importance to scholars and students across several disciplines, including criminology, sociology of deviance, social anthropology, media studies, cultural studies, television studies and linguistics.
- About the authors
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Dimitris Akrivos is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the School of Law, Criminal Justice and Computing of Canterbury Christ Church University, UK.
Alexandros K. Antoniou is Lecturer in Media Law at the School of Law, University of Essex, UK.
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“Akrivos and Antoniou’s edited volume adopts a multidisciplinary approach that offers a snapshot of the dynamic, ever-evolving landscape of popular media and representations of deviance and crime in the twenty-first century. The collection of media chosen by the book’s contributors is admirably broad.” (Ashley Pearson, Ksenia Gałuskina and Thomas Giddens, International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, Vol. 32 (2), June, 2019)
- Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Introduction: Crime and Deviance through the Lens of Popular Culture
Pages 1-9
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Deviant Detectives in the Scandinavian Welfare State: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Bridge
Pages 13-39
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The Representation of Crime and Criminals in the TV Series Sherlock and Elementary: A Corpus Study
Pages 41-71
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Person of Interest or Crime and Surveillance on Post-9/11 Network TV
Pages 73-88
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A Televised Social Problem Construction? Pushing Back Against the Invisibility of the Male Rape Victim in American Crime
Pages 91-119
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Crime, Deviance and Popular Culture
- Book Subtitle
- International and Multidisciplinary Perspectives
- Editors
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- Dimitris Akrivos
- Alexandros K. Antoniou
- Series Title
- Palgrave Studies in Crime, Media and Culture
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-04912-6
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-04912-6
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-04911-9
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVII, 343
- Number of Illustrations
- 12 b/w illustrations
- Topics
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