J. Frauley

Criminology, Deviance, and the Silver Screen (eBook, PDF)

The Fictional Reality and the Criminological Imagination

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This text argues for the usefulness of fictional realities for criminological theorizing and analysis. It illustrates that a creative and critical social scientific practice requires craft norms rather than commercial norms that threaten to completely colonize higher education.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
• Seitenzahl: 249
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780230115361
• Artikelnr.: 44930018

Autorenporträt

JON FRAULEY is Assistant Professor of Criminology at the University of Ottawa, Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

Introductory Remarks - Films, Themes, and Premises Theory, Theorizing, and Fictional Realities The Criminological Imagination Pathology, Power, and Medicalization in K-PAX and Happiness Moral Transcendence and Symbolic Interaction in Falling Down Subculture, Control, and American History X Power Crime and the Culture of Enterprise in American Psycho and Thank You for Smoking Bio-politics and Stigma Management in GATTACA