The Problem of Pleasure

Leisure, Tourism and Crime
Herausgeber: Jones, Carol; Mawby, Rob; Barclay, Elaine

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Produktbeschreibung

The tourism and leisure industries are big business. Opportunities for leisure and tourism have escalated as disposable income, technology, travel and education have become increasingly available in recent times. However, this trend has been juxtaposed with an increase in crime, particularly since the early the 1950s. Acquisitive crimes have been facilitated with the development of more portable and valuable commodities; some activities, such as drink driving and disorder, have now been socially defined as crimes and are more readily identified through new technology such as the increasing use of CCTV.¿ The Problem of Pleasure covers them all. The purpose of this book is to inform and enlighten a range of readers, whose interests may be academic or commercial on possible crime events and modus operandi of criminals. The book has a global perspective, bringing together leading academics from the UK, the US, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand who examine several aspects of leisure that are vulnerable to crime, from illegal hunting to street racing, as well as the impact of crime upon tourists and the tourism industry. This book will be a key text for students of tourism and leisure as well as criminology and sociology; people working in the tourism and recreation industry; policy makers and the police.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 564g
• ISBN-13: 9780415672368
• ISBN-10: 0415672368
• Artikelnr.: 32872625

Autorenporträt

Carol Jones and Rob Mawby are criminologists associated with the University of Gloucestershire, UK . Elaine Barclay is a criminologist at the University of New England, Armidale, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: The Problem of Pleasure - Theoretical Foundations 2. The
Paradox of Cinematic Sexual Violence as Entertainment 3. Crime Time: The
Rise of Police Programming on Television 4. The Making, Shaking and Taking
of Public Spaces 5. Playgrounds Without Frontiers: Movin', Moddin', Pushing
the Boundaries of Pleasure 6. Impermissible Pleasures in UK Leisure:
Exploring Policy Developments in Alcohol and Illicit Drugs 7.The Problem of
Access: Outdoor Leisure Activities and Access to Private Rural Land 8.
Public Disorder, Antisocial Behaviour and Alcohol-Related Crime: From the
Metropilis to the Tourist Resort 9. Sin City v. Fantasyland: Crime,
Legislation and Policing in Two Different Tourism Environments 10. 'There
Can Be No Orcs in New Zealand': Do Media Representations of Crime Tarnish
Tourism? 11. Visitor Perceptions of Crime-Safety and Attituded Towards
Risk: The Case of Table Mountain National Park, Cape Town 12. Crime and
Safety within Caravan Populations: An Australian Survey 13. Tourist
Victimisation - An Exploratory Survey from Ghana 14. The Tourist Victim:
Paradise Lost or Paradise Regained?