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Overview
This book offers an original and challenging reading of the 'crimino-legal complex' - criminology, criminal justice, criminal law, the media and everyday experiences - in the light of cultural studies and feminist theory.
Through an exploration of the crisis engendered by the failure of the crimino-legal complex to solve the problems of crime and criminality, Alison Young exposes the cultural dimension of its institutions and practices. She analyzes the far-reaching effects of the cultural value given to crime, showing it to be rooted in a powerful nexus of the body, language, the community and everyday life.
Imagining Crime examines a number of key events and issues which have signalled shifts in the representation of crime. These include: criminology's resistance to feminist intervention; the pleasures of reading detective fiction; ambiguities of victimization and social justice in the city; sacrificial structures in the law's response to conjugal homicide; policing the ethnicity of the 'illegal' immigrant; defensive responses to the limits of representation in the Bulger affair; the governmental strategies of campaigns against single mothers; and the fatalism of the spectacle of HIV//AIDS in criminal justice policy.
Innovative and accessible, Imagining Crime integrates questions in criminology, criminal law and criminal justice with feminist theory, socio-legal studies and cultural studies. It is invaluable reading for students and scholars of criminology, socio-legal studies, criminal law and cultural studies.
Imagining Crime examines a number of key events and issues which have signalled shifts in the representation of crime, and offers an original and challenging reading of the 'crimino-legal complex' - criminology, criminal justice, criminal law, the media and everyday experiences - in the light of cultural studies and feminist theory.
Synopsis
This book offers an original and challenging reading of the 'crimino-legal complex' - criminology, criminal justice, criminal law, the media and everyday experiences - in the light of cultural studies and feminist theory.
Through an exploration of the crisis engendered by the failure of the crimino-legal complex to solve the problems of crime and criminality, Alison Young exposes the cultural dimension of its institutions and practices. She analyzes the far-reaching effects of the cultural value given to crime, showing it to be rooted in a powerful nexus of the body, language, the community and everyday life.
Booknews
Young (criminology, Melbourne U.) offers the perspective of cultural studies and feminist theory on criminology, criminal law and justice, the media, and everyday experience, focusing on the failure of the established institutions and practices to solve the problems of crime and criminality. She analyzes the cultural value given to crime and finds it rooted in a nexus of the body, language, and the community. Among her topics are detective fiction, victimization, sacrificial structures in conjugal homicide, ethnicity, and the war on single mothers. Paper edition (8623-8), $22.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)