Criminology Goes to the Movies (eBook)

Crime Theory and Popular Culture

Michelle Brown, Nicole Rafter (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2011
Nyu Press (Verlag)
978-0-8147-7741-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Investigating cinema under the magnifying glassFrom a look at classics like Psycho and Double Indemnity to recent films like Traffic and Thelma & Louise, Nicole Rafter and Michelle Brown show that criminological theory is produced not only in the academy, through scholarly research, but also in popular culture, through film. Criminology Goes to the Movies connects with ways in which students are already thinking criminologically through engagements with popular culture, encouraging them to use the everyday world as a vehicle for theorizing and understanding both crime and perceptions of criminality. The first work to bring a systematic and sophisticated criminological perspective to bear on crime films, Rafter and Brown s book provides a fresh way of looking at cinema, using the concepts and analytical tools of criminology to uncover previously unnoticed meanings in film, ultimately making the study of criminological theory more engaging and effective for students while simultaneously demonstrating how theories of crime circulate in our mass-mediated worlds. The result is an illuminating new way of seeing movies and a delightful way of learning about criminology.

Inhalt

List of Illustrations  Preface  1 Introduction: Crime, History, Science Part I Biological Theories in the 19th Century 2 Moral Insanity and the Origins of Criminology  3 Phrenology: The Abnormal Brain  4 Criminal Anthropology: The Atavistic Brain  5 Evolutionary Theories: The Degenerate Brain Part II Biological Theories in the 20th Century 6 Stupidity Theories: The Backward Brain  7 Constitutional Theory: Bodytypes and Criminality  8 Criminology’s Darkest Hour: Biocriminology in Nazi Germany 9 Contemporary Biocriminology Part III Biological Theories in the 21st Century 10 A Criminology for the 21st Century  Notes  References  Index  About the Author 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.9.2011
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Medienrecht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht
• ISBN-10: 0-8147-7741-4 / 0814777414
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8147-7741-1 / 9780814777411