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This book attempts to make sense of the current increase in violence, cruelty, hate and humiliation, arguing that an overly organised economic world has provoked desire for extreme forms of popular and personal pleasure.
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Everyday life is becoming increasingly filled with violence, cruelty, hate and humiliation. Cultural Criminology and the Carnival of Crime attempts to make sense of this trend, arguing that an over-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 fascinating issues Mike Presdee addresses are:
the living out of carnival desires on the streets through joyriding, street crime and antisocial behaviour, and in private via the internet
the commodification of hate, hurt and humiliation in popular culture
the popularisation and criminalisation of sadomasochism and dance music cultures
The author concludes that in order to truly make sense of senseless acts, it is essential for criminologists to turn to cultural criminology and that, as successive governments take steps to further rationalise public life, they will continue to create crime rather than to alleviate it.
Amongst the fascinating issues Mike Presdee addresses are:
the living out of carnival desires on the streets through joyriding, street crime and antisocial behaviour, and in private via the internet
the commodification of hate, hurt and humiliation in popular culture
the popularisation and criminalisation of sadomasochism and dance music cultures
The author concludes that in order to truly make sense of senseless acts, it is essential for criminologists to turn to cultural criminology and that, as successive governments take steps to further rationalise public life, they will continue to create crime rather than to alleviate it.
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