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:	9781349378869
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	01/19/2011
Edition description:	1st ed. 2010
Pages:	249
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

Introductory Remarks - Films, Themes, and Premises Theory, Theorizing, and Fictional Realities The Criminological Imagination Pathology, Power, and Medicalization in K-PAX and Happiness Moral Transcendence and Symbolic Interaction in Falling Down Subculture, Control, and American History X Power Crime and the Culture of Enterprise in American Psycho and Thank You for Smoking Bio-politics and Stigma Management in GATTACA