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This volume contains contributions on the theme of popular culture, crime, and social control. The chapters in this volume tease out various criminologically relevant issues, pertaining to crime/deviance and/or the control thereof, on the basis of an analysis of various aspects and manifestations of popular culture, including music, movies, television, paintings, sculptures, photographs, cartoons, and the internet-based audio-visual materials that are presently available. Thematically diverse within the province of criminology, the chapters in this book are not restricted in terms of theoretical approach and methodological orientation. Using a variety of methodological and theoretical perspectives, the volume is diverse in addressing dimensions of popular culture in relation to important criminological questions.

This volume appears as Volume 14 in the series, "Sociology of Crime, Law, and Deviance."

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Introduction: The Criminology of Popular Culture [online copy]

            Mathieu Deflem

 

Part I: Crime and Social Control in THE VISUAL ARTS

 

Reefer Madness and Beyond

            Susan Boyd

 

The Dark Knight: Constructing Images of Good vs. Evil in an Age of Anxiety

            Nickie D. Phillips

 

Superhero Justice: The Depiction of Crime and Justice in Modern-Age Comic Books and Graphic Novels

            Bradford W. Reyns and Billy Henson

 

Televised Images of Jail: Lessons in Controlling the Unruly

            Dawn K. Cecil

 

Part II: Resistance, Crime, and Protest IN MUSIC

 

“I Broke the Law? No, the Law Broke Me!” Palestinian Hip-Hop and the Semiotics of Occupation

            Judah Schept

 

Rap Music’s Violent and Misogynistic Effects: Fact or Fiction?

            Charis E. Kubrin and Ronald Weitzer

 

Crime Resistance and Song: Black Musicianship Is Black Criminology

            Viviane Saleh-Hanna

 

The Different Sounds of American Protest: From Freedom Songs to Punk Music

            Ellen C. Leichtman

 

Part III: Crime and Justice iN NON-Fiction

 

Evil Monsters and Cunning Perverts: Representing and Regulating the Dangerous Paedophile

            Anneke Meyer

 

Framing the Scene: Presentations of Forensic Programming in the News

            Gregory Justis and Steven Chermak

 

Beach Crime in Popular Culture: Confining the Carnivalesque in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil

            Stephanie C. Kane

 

Here Be Dragons: Lombroso, the Gothic, and Social Control

            Nicole Rafter and Per Ystehede

           

 

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