Verbrechensbilder (Neuerscheinung Cultural Criminology)

Keith J. Hayward and Mike Presdee, eds.: Framing Crime: Cultural Criminology and the Image. New York: Routledge-Cavendish, 2010. Aus der Verlagsanzeige: “In a world in which media images of crime and deviance proliferate, where every facet of offending is reflected in a ‘vast hall of mirrors’, Framing Crime: Cultural Criminology and the Image makes sense of the increasingly blurred line between the real and the virtual.
Images of crime and crime control have become almost as ‘real’ as crime and criminal justice itself. The meaning of both crime and crime control now resides, not solely in the essential – and essentially false – factuality of crime rates or arrest records, but also in the contested processes of symbolic display, cultural interpretation, and representational negotiation.
It is essential, then, that criminologists are closely attuned to the various ways in which crime is imagined, constructed and framed within modern society”. (Na ja, alle Räder müssen nicht neu erfunden werden …)

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