Full Description
Monsters, Law, Crime, an edited collection composed of essays written by prominent U.S. and international experts in Law, Criminology, Sociology, Anthropology, Communication and Film, constitutes a rigorous attempt to explore fertile interdisciplinary inquiries into "monsters" and "monster-talk," and law and crime. This edited collection explores and updates contemporary discussions of the emergent and evolving frontiers of monster theory in relation to cutting-edge research on law and crime as extensions of a Gothic Criminology. This theoretical framework was initially developed by Caroline Joan "Kay" S. Picart, a Philosophy and Film professor turned Attorney and Law professor, and Cecil Greek, a Sociologist (Picart and Greek 2008). Picart and Greek proposed a Gothic Criminology to analyze the fertile synapses connecting the "real" and the "reel" in the flow of Gothic metaphors and narratives that abound around criminological phenomena that populate not only popular culture but also academic and public policy discourses. Picart's edited collection adapts the framework to focus predominantly on law and the social sciences.
Contents
Introduction: Explorations in Gothic Criminology: Ruminating on Monsters, Law, and Crime — Caroline Joan 'Kay' S. Picart
I. Of Myths and Monsters
Chapter One: "Deeds of Treachery and Violence and Lust and Cruelty": Revisiting Freud's Primal Crimes in Aboriginal Central Australia — John Morton
Chapter Two: Criminal Anthropology, Fabulism, and Criminology's Unacknowledged Teratological Lineage — Jon Frauley
Chapter Three: Vampire Fictions and the Conflation of Violent Criminality with Real Vampirism: A Practical Overview — John Edgar Browning and DJ Williams
II. Contagion, Monstrosity, Ethics
Chapter Four: A Double-Tap "Lilith Moral Panic" in Israel, 2014: How Labeling Others as "Monsters" Conceals Their Victimization — Orit Kamir
Chapter Five: Evil-By-Proxy and Everyday Monsters: Towards a Moral Sociology for Overcoming the Passive Observation of Evil —Michael Hviid Jacobsen
Chapter Six: Monstering Madness: Criminal Lunatics in Broadmoor 1863-1913— Lucy Williams, Sandra Walklate, and Barry Godfrey
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