Victoria M. Time

Shakespeare's Criminals

Criminology, Fiction, and Drama

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

By exploring Shakespeare's use of law and justice themes in the context of historical and contemporary criminological thinking, this book challenges criminologists to expand their spheres of inquiry to avenues that have yet to be explored or integrated into the discipline. Crime writers, including William Shakespeare, were some of the earliest investigators of the criminal mind. However, since the formalization of criminology as a discipline, citations from literary works have often been omitted, despite their interdisciplinary nature. Taking various Shakespearean plays and characters as case studies, this book opens novel theoretical avenues for conceptualizing crime and justice issues. What types of crimes did Shakespeare's characters commit? What were the motivations put forth for these crimes? What type of social control did Shakespeare advocate? By utilizing a content analysis procedure, the author confirms that many of the crimes that plague society today were also prevalent in Shakespeare's time. She gleans twelve criminological theories as motivations for character deviance. Character analysis also provides valuable insight into Shakespeare's notions of formal and informal social control.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780313308703
• ISBN-10: 0313308705
• Artikelnr.: 22258995

Autorenporträt

VICTORIA M. TIME is Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at Old Dominion University./e

Inhaltsangabe

Preface The Problem and Elizabethan England A Case for the Use of Literary
Works in Criminoloy The Historical Setting: Shakespeare's England Crimes
and Deviance Committed by Selected Characters Violence Against the Person
Property Crimes Noncriminal Deviance and Nonviolent Sexual Deviance
Relationship Between Criminological Theory and the Behavior of Selected
Shakespearean Characters Classicalism: Rational Choice: Macbeth
Lombrosianism, Theories of Heredity, and Psychopathy and the Antisocial
Personality Ecological Theory: Pompey, Froth Social Learning Theories:
Othello, Richard III Social Control and Bond Theories: Lady Macbeth,
Othello, Richard III Normality of Crime and Strain/Anomie Theories Social
Reaction/Labeling Theory: Shylock Conflict Theory: Shylock Integrated
Theories Social Control and Legal Issues The Etiology of Punishment The
Duke's Judgment Conclusion and Recommendation Appendix: Who Was William
Shakespeare? Bibliography Name Index Subject Index