Stephen Brauer

Criminality and the Modern

Contingency and Agency in Twentieth-Century America

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Produktbeschreibung

Using modernism as a lens, Stephen Brauer examines Americans' understanding of criminality in the twentieth-century and how the powerful figure of the criminal is key to exploring cultures, social norms, and, ultimately, laws.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 467g
• ISBN-13: 9781793608444
• ISBN-10: 179360844X
• Artikelnr.: 62759187

Autorenporträt

By Stephen Brauer

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Cultural Work of American Crime Narratives
Chapter 1: The Face of Crime, a Killer Body: Imagining the Criminal Type
Chapter 2: "I Had to Have Her, If I Hung for It": Impulse, Repression, and
Repetition Compulsion
Chapter 3: Reforming the "Bad" Boy: Juvenile Delinquency, Intervention, and
Choice
Chapter 4: The Criminal as Self-Made Man
Conclusion: The Crime Narrative in Late Capitalism