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Transgressive Imaginations Crime, Deviance and Culture

Transgressive Imaginations Crime, Deviance and Culture

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'.

Keywords

Social ScienceRegional StudiesCriminologyLiterary CriticismPerforming ArtsFilmTelevisionSociologyAnthropologyCultural & Social

2012Book

Author(s)Maggie O'Neill

PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK

ISBN9780230577848

LanguageEnglish

SpringerLink Book

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