Crime, Prisons and Viscous Culture Adventures in Criminalized Identi
This unique book explores criminalized identities and the idea of 'viscous culture' to provide new understandings of crime, punishment and justice. It shows that viscous culture encourages some of us to become outlaws, monsters or shapeshifters who
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Finola Farrant
Crime, Prisons and Viscous Culture
Finola Farrant
Crime, Prisons and Viscous Culture Adventures in Criminalized Identities
Finola Farrant University of Roehampton London, United Kingdom
ISBN 978-1-137-49009-4 ISBN 978-1-137-49010-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-49010-0 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016946987 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016 The author(s) has/have asserted their right(s) to be identified as the author(s) of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Cover Illustration: © Tim Bird / Getty images Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Macmillan Publishers Ltd. London
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Preface
Criminology is not a solitary discipline. Indeed, one of the joys of identifying oneself as a criminologist is the hybridized nature of such an identity. Potentially incorporating sociology, law, politics, history, psychology, linguistics, cultural studies and beyond, criminology thrives on engaging with, rubbing up against, absorbing and being transformed by concepts and ideas, ways of knowing and ways of doing, from a multitude of other disciplines. Criminology is a fragmented, distorted, grotesque, fascinating, carnivalesque, cyborgian, monstrous, shapeshifting beast. The premise of this book is, however, that criminology is at risk of stagnating. Structural explanations of crime, in terms of understanding through the social, economic and political spheres, have too often neglected the individual; while the individualization of crime and criminality continues apace, oblivious, it seems, to the enormous and varied influences that bear upon us. Instead, I argue, in the spirit of Wright Mills (1959/2000), that life is made up of a range of interconnected stories. Some we are told and some we make up. In some we are the star o
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