Cultural Criminology

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https://doi.org/10.29327/2193997.2.3-3

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criminology, cultural criminology, criminal control, contemporary society

Abstract

Cultural criminology explores the many ways in which cultural dynamics intertwine with the practices of crime and criminal control in contemporary society; in other words, cultural criminology emphasizes the centrality of meaning and representation in the construction of crime as a momentary event, a subcultural effort and a social issue. From this point of view, the appropriate subject of criminology transcends traditional notions of crime and causality of crime, to include images of illicit behavior and symbolic displays of law enforcement; constructions of popular culture of crime and criminal action; and the shared emotions that animate criminal events, perceptions of criminal threats and public efforts to control crime.

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Author Biographies

Jeff Ferrell, University of Kent - United Kingdom

Visiting Professor of Criminology at the University of Kent, UK, and Professor of Sociology at Texas Christian University, USA. He is author of the books Crimes of Style, Tearing Down the Streets, and Empire of Scrounge. He is co-editor of the books Cultural Criminology, Ethnography at the Edge, Making Trouble, Cultural Criminology Unleashed, and Cultural Criminology: Theories of Crime. Jeff Ferrell is founding and current editor of the New York University Press book series Alternative Criminology, and one of the founding editors of the journal Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal (winner of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers’ 2006 Charlesworth Award for Best New Journal). In 1998 he received the Critical Criminologist of the Year Award from the Critical Criminology Division of the American Society of Criminology.

Thiago Aguiar de Pádua, UniCEUB

Doutor e Mestre em Direito e Políticas Públicas. Professor do Mestrado e da graduação em direito da UDF e da Pós-graduação em Ciências Criminais na FASAM.

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YOUNG, J. Merton with energy, Katz with structure: The sociology of vindictiveness and the criminology of transgression. Theoretical Criminology 7 (3), 389-414, 2003

Revista da Defensoria Pública do Distrito Federal, volume dois, número três, dossiê temático criminologia e direito

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Published

2020-12-16

How to Cite

Ferrell, J., & Pádua, T. A. de. (2020). Cultural Criminology. Journal of Brazilian Federal District Public Defensorship, 2(3), 25–30. https://doi.org/10.29327/2193997.2.3-3

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Vol. 2 No. 3 (2020): Criminology and law

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