Criminology Goes to the Movies
Crime Theory and Popular Culture
$55.07
- Paperback
236 pages
- Release Date
31 August 2011
Summary
Investigating cinema under the magnifying glass
From a look at classics like Psycho and Double Indemnity to recent films like Traffic and Thelma & Louise, Nicole Rafter and Michelle Brown show that criminological theory is produced not only in the academy, through scholarly research, but also in popular culture, through film. Criminology Goes to the Movies connects with ways in which students are already thinking criminologically through e…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780814776520 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0814776523 |
| Author: | Michelle Brown, Nicole Rafter |
| Publisher: | New York University Press |
| Imprint: | New York University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 236 |
| Release Date: | 31 August 2011 |
| Weight: | 380g |
| Dimensions: | 19mm x 155mm x 230mm |
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Critics Review
“This hugely engrossing book will change the way you view crime films and the way you interpret criminology. It is the perfect means of introducing complicated criminological concepts to students, and experienced criminologists will learn things about film and their own field they never expected.” Shadd Maruna, author of Making Good
Michelle Brown
Nicole Rafter was Professor Emeritus of Criminology at Northeastern University. Her publications include The Crime of All Crimes: Toward a Criminology of Genocide, The Criminal Brain: Understanding Biological Theories of Crime, and, with Michelle Brown, Criminology Goes to the Movies. In 2009, Rafter was awarded the Sutherland Award by the American Society of Criminology
for outstanding contributions to the discipline.
Michelle Brown is Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Appalachian Justice Research Center at the University of Tennessee. She is the author of The Culture of Punishment; the co-editor of The Routledge International Handbook of Visual Criminology and co-director of the digital project: Abolition Now: Images for Study and Struggle.
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