Criminology, Deviance, and the Silver Screen: The Fictional Reality and the Criminological Imagination

by J. Frauley

Overview

This text argues for the usefulness of fictional realities for criminological theorizing and analysis. It illustrates that a creative and critical social scientific practice requires craft norms rather than commercial norms that threaten to completely colonize higher education.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230615168
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	01/19/2011
Edition description:	2010
Pages:	249
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

JON FRAULEY is Assistant Professor of Criminology at the University of Ottawa, Canada.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Preface xi

1 Remarks on Conceptualizing, Analytic Languages, and the Disciplined Imagination 1

2 Criminology and the Fictional Social Reality 31

3 The Criminological Imagination 73

4 Moral Transcendence and Symbolic Interaction in Falling Down 99

5 Subculture and American History X 123

6 Pathology, Power, and Medicalization in K-PAX 157

7 Biopolitics and the Governance of Genetic Capital in GATTACA 195

Notes 217

References 229

Index 245