Culture, crime and punishment / Ronald Kramer.

• Machine generated contents note: Cultural approaches to crime and punishment -- The structure of the book -- 1. Theoretical foundations -- Introduction -- Positivist criminology: Theories of crime and punishment -- Radical constructivism -- Sociological criminology: Theories of crime -- Robert Merton and Albert Cohen: Crime as resolution -- David Matza and Gresham Sykes: Subterranean values -- The Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS): Subcultural resistance -- Howard Becker: Crime as a label -- Reverberations within cultural criminology: Criminalised behaviour -- Sociological criminology and the problem of punishment -- Howard Becker redux: Rule enforcers and moral entrepreneurs -- Hall and colleagues: Class structure, constructions of deviance and policing crisis -- Edwin Lemert and Stan Cohen: Secondary deviance and amplification -- Reverberations within cultural criminology: Punishment and social control -- Some lingering doubts and unresolved problems -- 2. Methodological approaches and the politics of research -- Introduction -- Positivist criminology: Methodological predilections and political values -- Cultural criminology: The quest for meaning -- Ethnography -- Textual analysis -- The politics of cultural criminology -- `Nothing new to see here': Pat Carlen and Dale Spencer -- Conclusion -- 3. The concept of culture and criminalised behaviour -- Introduction -- Culture of poverty arguments -- Poverty of dominant cultures: The problem of concurrent inclusion and exclusion -- The escapism of edgework and the carnival -- Crime as project: Restoring one's moral universe and meaningful political engagements -- Conclusion -- 4. Critiques of cultural criminology on crime -- Introduction -- Feminist theory, criminology and cultural criminology -- The ideological import of `resistant subcultures': Critical Marxism and the neglect of `foresight' -- Can the `resistance thesis' be rescued? -- Is cultural criminology without a concept of culture? -- Can the duality of culture be resolved? -- Conclusion -- 5. The framing of crime and social control efforts -- Introduction -- Ideology -- Discourse -- Moral panics -- Loops and spirals -- Conclusion -- 6. Consuming crime and punishment -- Introduction -- Making sense of the media: Types, the factual and the fictional, a powerful socio-cultural institution -- Media types and forms of content -- `Fact and fiction' or `fact/fiction'? -- Media performance debates: Serving the public or adjuncts of power and authority? -- The conservative view: Media as corrosive of social order -- Irrational fear and punitiveness -- `Collective realities': The `rational' kernel within media distortion -- Malicious media: The reproduction of power asymmetries -- Media and power -- Media as commodity: Production processes, victimisation, exploitation -- Modes of resistance: `Creative crimes' and `newsmaking criminology' -- Conclusion -- 7. Culture and punishment -- Introduction -- Freeing punishment from crime: Georg Rusche and Otto Kirchheimer -- Capital versus discourse: Cultures of control -- Two Durkheimian models: Reinforcing moral boundaries and pollution crises -- Kai Erikson and the reinforcement of cultural order -- Philip Smith and the cultural regulation of punishment techniques -- Feminist interventions: From `culture and punishment' to `culture/punishment' -- Conclusion -- 8. Criminal justice and new policies on crime control -- Introduction -- A general note on recent trends in criminal justice policy -- `Mandatory sentencing' or `sentencing guidelines', and `truth in sentencing' -- `Preventive detention' and `sexual predator laws' -- The `war on drugs' (and, more broadly, adopting a `war mentality' in relation to crime) -- `Broken windows' and `zero-tolerance policing' -- The peculiarity of punitive policy -- Media and public policy -- Penal populism -- The new penology and neoliberal state-crafting -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- References.

Ämnesord

Crime  -- Sociological aspects. (LCSH)

Crime  -- Sociological aspects. (fast)

Brottslighet  -- sociala aspekter (sao)

Klassifikation

364.01 (DDC)

Oepa (kssb/8 (machine generated))