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Monsters, Law, Crime
Explorations in Gothic Criminology
Caroline Joan "Kay" S. Picart (Redaktør) Caroline Joan "Kay" S. Picart (Innledning) John Edgar Browning (Innledning) DW Duke (Innledning) Barry Godfrey (Innledning) Cecil Greek (Innledning) Jonathan Frauley (Innledning) Steve Greenfield (Innledning) Marouf Hasian (Innledning) Michael Hviid Jacobsen (Innledning) Orit Kamir (Innledning) Deborah Landry (Innledning) John Morton (Innledning) Matthew Sorrento (Innledning) Lucy Williams (Innledning) Sandra Walklate (Innledning) DJ Williams (Innledning)
«Monsters, Law, Crime reminds us in a graphic way how different societies have taken their fears of the out-of-the ordinary and portrayed and treated those deemed to be "other". They range from victims of misogyny in Israel and Jihadists through the mentally ill in Victorian Britain to modern day medical serial killers. There is much more besides. How the media over the years have responded to a variety of challenges to social norms is the subject of this collection. This happens in crime narratives, newspapers, television and film. These essays provide a fascinating kaleidoscope of how the various media have adopted the monster form as a way of showing these challenges. This is an absorbing collection of essays which shifts the focus away from the mundanity of the deviance encountered on a daily basis in the justice process. It shows how Stan Cohen's “Folk Devils” have both a rich tradition across cultures and a likely long-term future. The contexts of the moral panics change but the resort to the demonisation of the other is a recurrent feature which this collection effectively illustrates.»
Peter Robson, School of Law, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
Monsters, Law, Crime, an edited collection composed of essays written by prominent U.S. and international experts in Law, Criminology, Sociology, Anthropology, Communication and Film, constitutes a rigorous attempt to explore fertile interdisciplinary inquiries into "monsters" and "monster-talk," and law and crime. Les mer
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Monsters, Law, Crime, an edited collection composed of essays written by prominent U.S. and international experts in Law, Criminology, Sociology, Anthropology, Communication and Film, constitutes a rigorous attempt to explore fertile interdisciplinary inquiries into "monsters" and "monster-talk," and law and crime. "Monsters" may refer to allegorical or symbolic fantastic beings (as in literature, film, legends, myths, etc.), or actual or real life monsters, as well as the interplay/ambiguity between the two general types of "monsters." This edited collection thus 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 may be seen as extensions of a Gothic Criminology, generally construed. Gothic Criminology refers to a theoretical framework initially developed by Caroline Joan "Kay" S. Picart, a Philosophy and Film professor turned Attorney and Law professor, and Cecil Greek, a Sociologist (Picart and Greek 2008). Succinctly paraphrased, noting the proliferation of Gothic modes of narration and visualization in American popular culture, academia and even public policy, Picart and Greek proposed a framework, which they described as a "Gothic Criminology" to attempt to analyze the fertile lacunae connecting the "real" and the "reel" in the flow of Gothic metaphors and narratives that abound around criminological phenomena that populate not only popular culture but also academic and public policy discourses.
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- Forlag
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9781683930792
- Utgivelsesår
- 2020
- Format
- 24 x 16 cm
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«Monsters, Law, Crime reminds us in a graphic way how different societies have taken their fears of the out-of-the ordinary and portrayed and treated those deemed to be "other". They range from victims of misogyny in Israel and Jihadists through the mentally ill in Victorian Britain to modern day medical serial killers. There is much more besides. How the media over the years have responded to a variety of challenges to social norms is the subject of this collection. This happens in crime narratives, newspapers, television and film. These essays provide a fascinating kaleidoscope of how the various media have adopted the monster form as a way of showing these challenges. This is an absorbing collection of essays which shifts the focus away from the mundanity of the deviance encountered on a daily basis in the justice process. It shows how Stan Cohen's “Folk Devils” have both a rich tradition across cultures and a likely long-term future. The contexts of the moral panics change but the resort to the demonisation of the other is a recurrent feature which this collection effectively illustrates.»
Peter Robson, School of Law, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
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