Movies play a central role in shaping our understanding of crime and the world generally,
helping us define what is good and bad, desirable and unworthy, lawful and illicit, strong …

From 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 …

Criminology: theory and context, third edition, expands upon the ideas presented in previous
editions, while introducing new material on critical theory, feminism, masculinities, cultural …

This article aims at giving crime-film research a stronger sense of purpose by asking: How
do crime films relate to criminology? Using the example of recent films about sex crimes, I …

Criminology: The Key Concepts is an authoritative and comprehensive study guide and
reference resource that will take you through all the concepts, approaches, issues and …

This article aims to demonstrate that, despite their potential for cultivating communitarianism
and deliberative democracy on a large scale, the mass media contribute decisively to the …

In this post September 11 (9/11) climate of the “War on Terror”, Hollywood political-thriller
films carry a new cultural currency. Drawing from literature in postcolonial studies and its …

Insofar as cultural criminology is concerned with the multiple intersections between crime,
deviance, control and symbolic representation, then the study of film would appear to be a …

This chapter situates itself within criminological aesthetics, and to the enterprise of
investigating crime's fascination it contributes an analysis of relationship to the cinematic …

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