Cultural Criminology and the Carnival of Crime attempts to make sense of the current increase in violence, cruelty, hate and humiliation, which has come to permeate daily life. The text argues that an overly organised economic world has provoked a widespread desire for extreme, oppositional forms of popular and personal pleasure. This desire has resulted in a cathartic 'second life' of illicit pleasures often deemed criminal by those in power. Amongst the exciting issues Mike Presdee addresses are:* joyriding* street crime* antisocial behaviour in private via the internet* hate, hurt and humiliation in popular culture* the popularisation and criminalisation of sadomasochism and dance music cultures.
Author(s): Mike Presdee
Edition: 1
Year: 2001
Language: English
Pages: 192
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Apologies......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
1 Introduction......Page 12
Part I Analysis......Page 24
2 Cultural criminology......Page 26
3 From carnival to the carnival of crime (With Gavin Carver)......Page 42
4 Commodification, consumption and crime......Page 68
Part II Context......Page 78
5 Hurt, humiliation and crime as popular pleasure......Page 80
6 The criminalisation of consent: the case of S&M......Page 98
7 Rap and rave and the criminalisation of youth......Page 118
8 The carnival and the performing of crime Young people, knives and other weapons......Page 144
9 Senseless acts The harbouring and harvest of hate......Page 162
References......Page 176
Index......Page 188
