Popular Criminology (III): The Criminologists

“This discourse needs a name” (Nicole Rafter, 2007¹).

Neuerscheinung zum Thema:

Mathieu Deflem (ed.): Popular Culture, Crime and Social Control. (Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance, vol. 14). Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010. Synopsis und ToC auf Mathieu Deflems pers. Website: “This volume contains contributions on the theme of popular culture, crime, and social control. The chapters in this volume tease out various criminologically relevant issues, pertaining to crime/deviance and/or the control thereof, on the basis of an analysis of various aspects and manifestations of popular culture, including music, movies, television, paintings, sculptures, photographs, cartoons, and the internet-based audio-visual materials that are presently available. Thematically diverse within the province of criminology, the chapters in this book are not restricted in terms of theoretical approach and methodological orientation. Using a variety of methodological and theoretical perspectives, the volume is diverse in addressing dimensions of popular culture in relation to important criminological questions”. (Außerdem ist auch Deflems “Introduction” online: “The Criminology of Popular Culture “.)

Ich hatte mir eigentlich einen kleinen Forschungsbericht zur Popular Criminology vorgenommen (die man übrigens nicht mit Cultural Criminology verwechseln sollte², obwohl es da einige Überschneidungen gibt). Doch der muß ausfallen, schon weil es mir trotz intensiver Lektüre nicht gelungen ist herauszufinden, wo oder wie Popular Criminology den zahlreichen Verbrechen-Justiz-und-Medien-Studien, die seit Jahrzehnten erscheinen, neue Perspektiven abgewinnen will. Man weiß schon seit geraumer Zeit, daß die Verständigung über Verbrechen im Zentrum der Selbstverständigung ‘moderner’ Gesellschaften steht (und erhofft sich genau dazu die Thesen von den Kriminologen, doch die bleiben aus):

“Crime is everywhere. Everyone has been both victim and offender. But the most frequent contact with crime is through newspapers, books, television, film, video, computer games, political speeches, and the rantings of drunks in pubs”, schrieb Philip Rawlings (pers. Website/UCL) 1998 und konnte die Beobachter schon damals nicht recht überraschen.³

Auswahl:

Timothy J. Flanagan: “Change and Influence in Popular Criminology: Public Attributions of Crime Causation,” Journal of Criminal Justice 15.3 (1987): 231–243.

Jill Peay, “The Power of the Popular,” The British Criminology Conferences: Selected Proceedings. Volume 1: Emerging Themes in Criminology, Loughborough University Papers from the British Criminology Conference, 18-21 July 1995. This volume published September 1998. Editors Jon Vagg and Tim Newburn (online).

Sheila Brown: Crime, Law and Media Culture. London: Open University Press 2003.

Nicole H. Rafter: Shots in the Mirror: Crime Films and Society. 2nd Edition. Oxford, New York et al.: Oxford UP, 2006.

Caroline Joan Picart and Cecil Greek, “The Compulsion of Real/Reel Serial Killers and Vampires: Toward a Gothic Criminology,” Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture 10.1 (2003): 39-68.

Michelle Brown: “Crime Fiction and Criminology. Book Review Essay,” Criminal Justice Review 29.1 (2004).⁴

Caroline Joan (Kay) Picart and Cecil Greek, eds.: Monsters In and Among Us. Toward a Gothic Criminology. Madison, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press 2007.

Rodanthi Tzanelli, Majid Yar, and O’Brien Martin: “’Con me if you can’. Exploring Crime in the American Cinematic Imagination,” Theoretical Criminology 9.1 (2005): 97-117.

Eamonn Carrabine: Crime, Culture and the Media. (Crime & Society Series) Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA: Polity 2008.

Desmond Manderson: “Trust Us Justice: 24, Popular Culture and the Law” (2009) (forthcoming in IMAGINING LEGALITY: WHERE LAW MEETS POPULAR CULTURE, Austin Sarat, ed., 2010). Available at SSRN.

1. “Crime, Film and Criminology. Recent Sex-Crime Movies,” Theoretical Criminology 11.3 (2007): 403–420 [↩]
2. Vgl. dazu Andrea Kretschmann: “Anything goes? Eine kritische Betrachtung der Cultural Criminology,” Kriminologisches Journal 40 (2008): 200–217. [↩]
3. “True Crime,” in The British Criminology Conferences: Selected Proceedings. Volume 1: Emerging Themes in Criminology, Loughborough University Papers from the British Criminology Conference, 18–21 July 1995. This volume published September 1998. Editors Jon Vagg and Tim Newburn. Online . [↩]
4. Bei Brown geht’s um die Mühen der Ebenen. [↩]

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1. “Crime, film and criminology”
2. Verbrechensbilder (Neuerscheinung Cultural Criminology)
3. “Crime Fiction and Criminology”
4. Crime and Media (Forschung)
5. Popular Criminology (I): Tagung