Crime TV (eBook)

Streaming Criminology in Popular Culture

Jonathan A. Grubb, Chad Posick (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
Nyu Press (Verlag)
978-1-4798-3863-9 (ISBN)

Infos

From Game of Thrones to Breaking Bad, the key theories and concepts in criminal justice are explained through the lens of televisionIn Crime TV, Jonathan A. Grubb and Chad Posick bring together an eminent group of scholars to show us the ways in which crime and the broader criminal justice system are depicted on television. From Breaking Bad and Westworld to Mr. Robot and Homeland, this volume highlights how popular culture frames our understanding of crime, criminological theory, and the nature of justice through modern entertainment. Featuring leading criminologists, Crime TV makes the key concepts and analytical tools of criminology as engaging as possible for students and interested readers. Contributors tackle an array of exciting topics and shows, taking a fresh look at feminist criminology on The Handmaid s Tale, psychopathy on The Fall, the importance of social bonds on 13 Reasons Why, radical social change on The Walking Dead, and the politics of punishment on Game of Thrones. Crime TV offers a fresh and exciting approach to understanding the essential concepts in criminology and criminal justice and how theories of crime circulate in popular culture.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.7.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 2 b/w illustrations
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Schlagworte: abolitionism • Agency • american crime • Anti-Sitcom • Archer • Biopsychosocial • Black Mirror • Capitalism • collective efficacy • Communities • Community • conflict • Conflict theory • Corporate Crime • Crime • crimes of the powerful • criminal behavior • Criminal Minds • Criminological Theory • Critical theory • cultural conflict • Cultural Criminology • Dark Tourism • drug manufacturing • feminist criminology • feminist theory • Follow the Money • Fraud • Game of Thrones • Gender • General strain theory • group conflict • Hedonistic calculus • Immigration • Integrated Theory • Intergenerational transmission • Islamophobia • It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia • Justice • Juvenile Delinquency • Kingpin • Labeling • Labels • Lost • Masculinity • media • Methamphetamine • Moral disengagement • Mr. Robot • Narcissism • Orientalism • Penal moderation • penal spectatorship • Philosophy • Pop culture • Popular criminology • Populist punitiveness • Pornography • Power • PRISON MUSEUMS • Psychopathy • punishment • Race • radical criminology • radical feminism • Robert Agnew • serial killing • Sexual assault • social bonds • Social Catastrophe • social change • social conflict • Social constructionism • social crime • social harm • Social Networking • Sociology • Spectacle of punishment • State Power • Strain • streaming services • subcultures • Substance Use • Suicide • Techniques of neutralization • terrorism • The Criminal Justice System • The Defenders • theory • Trauma • Violence • White-Collar Crime
• ISBN-10: 1-4798-3863-2 / 1479838632
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4798-3863-9 / 9781479838639