Images of Crime III.

Representations of Crime and the Criminal.

Edited by Telemach Serassis Edited by Harald Kania Edited by Hans-Jörg Albrecht

Book cover: Images of Crime III.

Paperback (Published)

(February 2009)

ISBN: 9783428130580

5.83 x 8.82 inches

Price: $40.00

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“The title of the volumes, ‘Images of Crime’,
rather undersells the richness of what they contain … Understanding the
complexities of crime, even pledges to ‘get tough’ on the causes, have been
side-lined. So the series’ commitment to a multi-disciplinary and critical excavation
of ideas of crime remains vitally apposite, however much it is a rather quixotic
battle against the dominant currents of our time. It is very much to be hoped that
the good it did is not interred with the series, but lives after it. I believe that
the strength of the scholarly contributions in these volumes will indeed lead to
their being referenced and remembered as significant landmarks in critical
criminology.”

From the Preface (Robert Reiner, Professor of Criminology, London School of
Economics)

Inhalt: R. Reiner, Preface - T. Serassis / H. Kania
/ H.-J. Albrecht, Introduction - N. Christie / H. Giertsen, When Sexuality Lost its
Disciplining Power: Changes in Conditions for Control - J. Mooney / J. Young, Youth,
Moral Panic and Late Modernity - N. Paraskevopoulos, Targeting Majorities: New
Orientations of Penal Control - R. Lippens, Tribal Images, Fashionable Deviance, and
Cultural Distinction: Notes on Criminological Change - A. Chaidou, Images of Violence
in Everyday Life - K. Bott / K. Reich / H.-J. Kerner, Images of 'Crime' from
Kindergarten to High School: Development and Differentiation of Concepts of Crime and
Criminals in the Early Life Course among Young People in Germany - J. Hupfeld, Men's
and Women's Theories about the Causes of Crime: The Influence of Severity and Type of
Offence on Intentions to Punish - M. Bock, The Selective Perception of Domestic
Violence - D. Vyleta, From Crime Science to Detective Fiction: The Case of Agatha
Christie - J. Alber, The Ideological Underpinnings of Prisons and their Inmates from
Charles Dickens's Novels to Twentieth-Century Film - P. Mason, Hollywood's Prison
Film: Towards a Discursive Regime of Imprisonment - M. Fludernik / M. Brandenstein,
Images of Crime and the German Justice System in German Trial Soaps - G. Forti,
'Public Harm' in the Media Selection of Crimes: A Discussion of a Recent Research
Project in Light of Cesare Beccaria's Philosophy

  • Edited by Telemach Serassis
  • Edited by Harald Kania
  • Edited by Hans-Jörg Albrecht