Transgressive Imaginations Crime, Deviance and Culture |
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| Author:
| O'Neill, Maggie
Seal, Lizzie |
| Series title: | Critical Criminological Perspectives Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-230-57784-8 |
| Publication Date: | May 2012 |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan Limited
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $136.95 |
Book Description:
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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'.
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'.