Popular culture, crime and social control /

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Group Author: Deflem, Mathieu
Published: Emerald,
Publisher Address: Bingley, UK :
Publication Dates: 2010.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Sociology of crime, law and deviance, v. 14
Subjects:
Carrier Form: xi, 288 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781849507325
1849507325
Index Number: HV6025
CLC: G05
D917.3
Call Number: D917.3/P831
Contents: Introduction: The criminology of popular culture -- 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 oc