Cultural Criminology books by University of Kent criminologists

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	The Vertigo of Late Modernity: Jock Young The Vertigo of Late Modernity is a seminal new work by Jock Young, author of the bestselling and highly influential book, "The Exclusive Society." In his new work, Young describes the sources of late modern vertigo as twofold: insecurities of status and of economic position. He explores the notion of an underclass and its detachment from the class structure. The book engages with the ways in which modern society attempts to explain deviant behaviour - whether it be crime, terrorism or riots - in terms of motivations and desires separate and distinct from those of the 'normal'. Young critiques the process of othering whether of a liberal or conservative variety, and develops a theory of 'vertigo' to characterise a late modern world filled with inequality and division. He points toward a transformative politics which tackle problems of economic injustice and build and cherish a society of genuine diversity. This major new work engages with some of the most important issues facing society today. Buy this book at: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Vertigo-Late-Modernity-Jock-Young/dp/1412935733/ref=sr_1_2/202-5469552-6563041?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1183137331&sr=1-2
	City Limits: Crime, Consumer Culture and the Urban Experience: Keith Hayward Criminology has always enjoyed a highly productive relationship with the city, generating many important empirical and theoretical studies. But all too often the human experience, social diversity and the inherently pluralistic fabric of city life are transformed into the discourse of demographics, statistics and rationality. This book examines the crime-city nexus in a way that makes sense of criminology’s past and contemporary engagements, including both administrative criminology and the work of Jack Katz and Mike Davis. Drawing on a range of disciplinary frameworks – social theory, urban studies, architectural theory and research into urban consumerism practices – the author argues that consumption is central to understanding the city and urban crime. This book will be of interest to students and academics of criminology, social theory, urban studies and cultural studies. Buy this book at:http://www.amazon.co.uk/City-Limits-Consumer-Experience-Criminology/dp/1904385036/ref=sr_1_1/202-5469552-6563041?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1183138546&sr=1-1
	Cultural Criminology and the Carnival of Crime: Mike Presdee This fascinating and timely publication examines the criminalization of cultural practices in contemporary Britain. By examining a range of criminalized cultural activities, including dog fighting, tunnel and tree dwellers, rave subcultures and joy-riding, the book reworks the notion of the senseless' act and explores the performance of actual crime and violence as cultural commodities to be consumed as entertainment by a society anxious for new and more exciting experiences. Cultural Criminology and the Carnival of Crime attempts to make sense of the current increase in violence, cruelty, hate and humiliation, which has come to permeate daily life. The text argues that an overly organised economic world has provoked a widespread desire for extreme, oppositional forms of popular and personal pleasure. This desire has resulted in a cathartic 'second life' of illicit pleasures often deemed criminal by those in power. Amongst the exciting issues Mike Presdee addresses are: joyriding street crime antisocial behaviour in private via the internet hate, hurt and humiliation in popular culture the popularisation and criminalisation of sadomasochism and dance music culture. Buy this book at: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cultural-Criminology-Carnival-Crime-Presdee/dp/0415239109/ref=pd_rhf_p_2/202-5469552-6563041
	Empire of Scrounge: Jeff Ferrell In December of 2001 Jeff Ferrell quit his job as a tenured professor, moved back to his hometown of Fort Worth, Texas, and, with a place to live but no real income, began an eight-month odyssey of essentially living off of the street. "Empire of Scrounge" tells the story of this unusual journey into the often illicit worlds of scrounging, recycling, and second-hand living. Existing as a dumpster diver and trash picker, Ferrell adopted a way of life that was both field research and free-form survival. Riding around on his scrounged BMX bicycle, Ferrell investigated the million-dollar mansions, working-class neighborhoods, middle class suburbs, industrial and commercial strips, and the large downtown area, where he found countless discarded treasures, from unopened presents and new clothes to scrap metal and even food. Richly illustrated throughout, "Empire of Scrounge" is both a personal journey and a larger tale about the changing values of American society. Perhaps nowhere else do the fault lines of inequality get reflected so clearly than at the curbside trash can, where one person's garbage often becomes another's bounty. Throughout this engaging narrative, full of a colorful cast of characters, from the mansion living suburbanites to the junk haulers themselves, Ferrell makes a persuasive argument about the dangers of over-consumption. With landfills overflowing, today's highly disposable culture produces more trash than ever before - and yet the urge to consume seems limitless. In the end, while picking through the city's trash was often dirty and unpleasant work, unearthing other people's discards proved to be unquestionably illuminating. After all, what we throw away says more about us than what we keep. Buy this book at: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Empire-Scrounge-Underground-Alternative-Criminology/dp/0814727387/ref=sr_1_1/202-5469552-6563041?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1183138934&sr=1-1
	Crimes of Style: Jeff Ferrell Crimes of Style is a journey into the underground Denver Graffiti scene. Jeff Ferrell's participant observations of local taggers and writers gives a fascinating insight into a sometimes beautiful and sometimes offensive subculture of vandalism....or is it? The question of vandalism or art remains an underlying question throughout Ferrell's book. And the reader must decide for her/himself where the line between art and crime stands. Buy this book at: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Crimes-Style-Graffitti-Politics-Criminality/dp/1555532764/ref=sr_1_1/202-5469552-6563041?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1183139501&sr=8-1

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Recent texts of interest to cultural criminology: 

This list is in no way intended to be exhaustive; rather just a sprinkling of a few recent favourites. If you'd like your book to be added to the list, or you can think of texts we've missed (and we no doubt have!), do drop us an email and let us know. We'll be happy to include them. 

Anderson, S., and Howard, G (1998) Interrogating Popular Culture, Guilderland, NY: Harrow and Heston
Back, L (1996) New Ethnicities and Urban Culture, London: UCL Press
Bailey, F., and Hale, D., (1998) Popular Culture, Crime and Justice, Belmont, CA: Wadsworth
Banks, C., (2000) Developing Cultural Criminology, Sydney: University of Sydney Press
Banksy (2005) Wall and Piece. London: Century
Barak, G., (1994) Media Processes and the Social Construction of Crime, New York: Garland
Bauman, Z (2000) Liquid Modernity. Cambridge: Polity.
Boyd, S, C., (2007) Hooked: Drug war films in Britain, Canada, and the United States, London: Routledge (More info (PDF))
Brotherton, D and Barrios, L (2004) The Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation.  New York:  Columbia University Press
Chancer, L., (2005) High-Profile Crimes: When Legal Cases Become Social Causes, Chicago: Chicago University Press
Chermak, S., Bailey, F., and Brown, M., (2003) Media Images of September 11th, Newport: Praeger
Coleman, R., (2004) Reclaiming the Streets: Surveillance, Social Control and the City, Cullompton: Wilan
De Jong, A., Schuilenburg, M., (2006) Mediapolis: Popular Culture and the City, 010 Publishers; Rotterdam
Davis, M (1998) The Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster, New York: Metropolitan Books
Docker, J (1994) Postmodernism and Popular Culture: A Cultural History, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Ferrell, J (1996) Crimes of Style: Urban Graffiti and the Politics of Criminality Boston: Northeastern University Press/University Press of New England
Ferrell, J (2001) Tearing Down the Streets: Adventures in Urban Anarchy New York: St Martins/Palgrave
Ferrell, J (2006) Empire of Scrounge: Inside the Urban Underground of Dumpster Diving, Trash Picking, and Street Scavenging. New York: New York University Press.
Ferrell, J and Sanders, C R (eds), (1995) Cultural Criminology Boston: Northeastern University Press
Ferrell, J and Hamm, M (eds) (1998) Ethnography at the Edge, Boston: Northeastern University Press
Ferrell, J, K Hayward, and J Young (2007/2008, forthcoming) Cultural Criminology: An Invitation. London: Sage
Ferrell, J and Websdale, N., (eds) (1999) Making Trouble: Cultural Constructions of Crime, New York: Aldine de Gruyter
Ferrell, J, K Hayward, W Morrison, and M Presdee (eds) (2004) Cultural Criminology Unleashed. London: Routledge/Glasshouse.
Fiske, J (1989) Reading the Popular, Boston, Mass: Unwin Hyman
Frako-Aas, K., (2005) Sentencing in the Age of Information, London: GlassHouse
Glassner, B (2000) The Culture of Fear: Why Americans are Afraid of the Wrong Things? New York: Basic Books
Hall, S., and Winlow, S., (2006) Violent Night,   Oxford: Berg
Hamm, M (1995) American Skinheads: the Criminology and Control of Hate Crime, Greenwood Press
Hamm, M (2007) Terrorism as Crime, New York; New York University Press
Hadfield, P. (2006) Bar Wars: Contesting the Night in Contemporary British Cities, Oxford: Oxford University Press
Hayden, T., (2004) Street Wars, New York: The New Press
Hebdidge, D (1988) Hiding in the Light: On Images and Things, London: Routledge
Henry, S and Milovanovic, D (1996) Constitutive Criminology: Beyond Postmodernism, London: Sage
Hobbs, D, Hadfield, P, Lister, S and Winlow, S. (2003) Bouncers: Violenceand Governance in the Night-time Economy, Oxford: Oxford UniversityPress.
Jarvis, B (2994) Cruell and Unusual: Punishment and US Culture, London: Pluto
Jewkes, Y (2003) Dot.cons: Crime, Deviance and Identity on the Internet, Cullompton: Willan.
Jewkes, Y (2004) Media and Crime. London: Sage.
Kane, S (1998) AIDS Alibis: Sex, Drugs and Crime in the Americas. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Katz, J (1988) The Seductions of Crime: Moral and Sensual Attractions in Doing Evil, New York: Basic Book
Katz, J (1999) How Emotions Work, Chicago: Chicago University Press
Kontos, L, Brotherton, D, and Barrios, L (2003) Gangs and Society, New York: Columbia University Press
Lasn, K (2000) Culture Jam: How to Reverse America’s Suicidal Consumer Binge – And Why We Must, New York: Harper Collins
Lury, C (1996) Consumer Culture, Cambridge: Polity
Lyng, S (2004) Edgework: The Sociology of Risk-Taking, London: Routledge
Lyon, D (1994) The Electronic Eye: the Rise of Surveillance Society, Cambridge: Polity
Macek, S., (2006) Urban Nightmares: the Media, the Right and the Moral Panic over the City, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press
Maffesoli, M (1996) The Time of Tribes: The Decline of Individualism in Mass Society, London: Sage
Miles, S (1998) Consumerism as a Way of Life, London: Sage
Miller, E M (1986) Street Woman, Philadelphia: Temple University
Morrison, W (1995) Theoretical Criminology: From Modernity to Post Modernism, London: Cavendish
Morrison, W., (2006) Criminology, Civilization and the New World Order, London: GlassHouse
Nightingale, C (1993) On the Edge, New York: NY: Basic Books
Parnell, P and Kane, S (eds) (2003) Crime’s Power: Anthropologists and the Ethnography of Crime, New York: Palgrave/St Martin’s 
Rafter, N (2006) Shots in the Mirror: Crime Films and Society, New York: Oxford University Press
Redhead, S (1993) Rave Off: Politics and Deviance in Contemporary Youth Culture, Aldershot: Avebury
Ruggiero, V (2000) Movements in the City: Conflict in the European Metropolis, Prentice Hall
Sibley, D (1995) The Geographies of Exclusion, London: Routledge
Smith, N (1996) The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City, London: Routledge
Sorkin, M (ed) (1992) Variations of a Theme Park, New York, NY: Noonday Press
Taylor, I (1999) Crime in Context: a Critical Criminology of Market Societies, Cambridge: Polity
Tierney, J., (2006) Criminology: Theory and Context1996, Hemel Hempstead, Prentice Hall
Tunnell, K., (2004) Pissing on Demand: Workplace Drug Testing and the Rise of the Detox Industry, New York, New York University Press
Valier, C (2001) Theories of Crime and Punishment, Longman
Valier, C (2003) Crime and Punishment in Contemporary Culture, London: Routledge
Walters, R., (2003) Deviant Knowledge, Cullompton: Willan
Willis, P (1990) Common Culture, Milton Keynes: Open University Press
Wilkinson, I (2005) The Sociology of Suffering, Oxford: Polity
Wilson, E (2001) The Contradictions of Culture: Cities, Culture, Women, London: Sage
Winlow, S (2001) Badfellas: Crime, Tradition and New Masculinities, Oxford: Berg
Yar, M (2005) Cybercrime and Society, London: Sage
Young, A (1996) Imagining Crime, London: Sage
Young, A., (2004) Judging the Image: Art, Value, Law, London: Routledge
Young, J (1999) The Exclusive Society, London: Sage
Young, J (2007) The Vertigo of Late Modernity. London: Sage