Monsters, Law, Crime

Explorations in Gothic Criminology
Herausgeber: Picart, Caroline Joan "Kay" S.

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Produktbeschreibung

Monsters, Law, Crime, composed of essays written by prominent U.S. and international experts in Law, Criminology, Sociology, Anthropology, Communication, and Film explores and updates contemporary discussions of the emergent and evolving fronts of monster theory in relation to cutting-edge research on law and crime, and of a Gothic Criminology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: RLPG/Galleys
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 602g
• ISBN-13: 9781683930792
• ISBN-10: 1683930797
• Artikelnr.: 60152725

Autorenporträt

Caroline Joan 'Kay' S. Picart is Attorney at Law practicing in criminal and family law and is Adjunct Professor of Law at Florida A & M University, Orlando, Florida.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Explorations in Gothic Criminology: Ruminating on Monsters,
Law, and Crime - Caroline "Kay" Joan 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
III. Monsters in Reel/Real Life
Chapter Seven: The Purge, or Law of the Universal Monstrous - Matthew
Sorrento
Chapter Eight: Contrasting Depictions of Medical Serial Killers; Doctors
Pétiot and Shipman from the Manic to the Mundane - Steve Greenfield
Chapter Nine: The Redactasaurus Chronicles: Fear, Consumption and Graffiti
in Capital City - Deborah Landry
IV. Law, War and Monstrous Discourses
Chapter Ten: Human Trafficking, Empathy for Victims, the Tool of
Eradication -David "D.W." Duke
Chapter Eleven: Visualizing Monsters and Just Wars in Legal and Public
Analyses of Eastwood's American Sniper - Marouf Hasian Jr.
Chapter Twelve: Monstrous Discourses, Jihadi Cool, and Emergent
Counter-Terrorist Narratives: The Case of Ahmad Khan Rahami (a.k.a. Ahmad
Rahimi) and the 2016 New York/New Jersey Bombings - Caroline Joan "Kay" S.
Picart
Postscript: Gothic Criminology's Evolving Frontiers - Cecil Greek