Steve Hall, Simon Winlow, Craig Ancrum

Criminal Identities and Consumer Culture

Crime, Exclusion and the New Culture of Narcissm

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Produktbeschreibung

Offering the first in-depth investigation into the relationship between today's crinimal identities and consumer culture, this book uses unique data - taken from criminals locked in areas of permanent recession - to uncover feelings and attitudes towards a variety of criminal activities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9781843922568
• ISBN-10: 1843922568
• Artikelnr.: 23394722

Autorenporträt

Steve Hall is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Northumbria University, UK. Simon Winlow is Lecturer in Sociology and Criminology at the University of York, UK. Craig Ancrum is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Teeside, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface 1. Introduction: The Return to Motivation 2. Life on the Precipice:
Economic Change and Acute Marginalisation 3. Consumption and
Identification: Some Insights into Desires and Motivations 4. Criminal
Biographies: Two Case Studies 5. Consumerism and the Counterculture 6.
Critical Reflections on the Intellectual Roots on Post-war Criminological
Theory 7. Myths of Exclusion and Resistance: A Critique of some Current
Thinking on Crime and Culture 8. Consumerism, Narcissism and the
Reorientation of the Western Super-ego 9. Conclusion: Consumerism, Crime
and Pseudo-pacification Process