Full Description
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.
Contents
Introduction; Dimitris Akrivos & Alexandros K Antoniou. - Section One: The 21st Century Fictional Detective. - Chapter 1: Deviant Detectives in the Scandinavian Welfare State: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Bridge; Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen. - Chapter 2: The Representation of Crime and Criminals in the TV Series Sherlock and Elementary: A Corpus Study; Archontoula Menti. - Chapter 3: Person of Interest, Or Crime and Surveillance on Post-9/11 Network TV;Anna Krawczyk-Łaskarzewska. - Section Two: Negotiating Gender Expectations and Sexual Mores through Popular Culture. - Chapter 4: A Televised Social Problem Construction? Pushing Back Against the Invisibility of the Male Rape Victim in American Crime; Dimitris Akrivos. Chapter 5. The 'Cool Girl' Strikes Back? A Socio-Legal Analysis of Gone Girl; Amanda Spalding. - Chapter 6. Neoliberal Enticements, Neoliberal Dangers: An Ethnographic Content Analysis of Everyday Sexuality in Fresh Meat, Greek and Sweet Vicious; Demetris Hadjigeorgiou. - Section Three: True Crime and the Quest for Justice. - Chapter 7: Wrongful Conviction, Pop Culture, and Achieving Justice in the Digital Age; Greg Stratton. - Chapter 8: Aftermath: The True Crime Memoir Comes of Age; Jean Murley. - Section Four: Mainstreaming Deviant Subcultures. - Chapter 9. Popular Culture, Populism and the Figure of the 'Criminal': On the Rising Popular Support of Outlaw Bikers and Anti-Establishment Resentment; Tereza Kuldova. - Chapter 10. InstaGraff - The Influence of Web 2.0, Social Media and User-Created Content upon Graffiti Culture Performed in Cyber/Space; Nicola Harding. - Section Five: Racialisation, Islamophobia and Popular Culture. - Chapter 11. Portrayals of Middle Eastern Background Communities as Criminal in Australian Popular Media; Megan McElhone. - Chapter 12. Modern Sport as a Deviant Practice? How Not to Play Sports According to the IslamicOnline Fatâwâ; Alberto Testa. - Conclusion: Popular Criminology Revisited; Dimitris Akrivos & Alexandros K. Antoniou.
