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This book offers an original and challenging reading of the 'crimino-legal complex' - criminology, criminal justice, criminal law, the media and everyday experiences - in the light of cultural studies and feminist theory. Through an exploration of the crisis engendered by the failure of the crimino-legal complex to solve the problems of crime and criminality, Alison Young exposes the cultural dimension of its institutions and practices. She analyzes the far-reaching effects of the cultural value given to crime, showing it to be rooted in a powerful nexus of the body, language, the community and everyday life. Imagining Crime examines a number of key events and issues which have signalled shifts in the representation of crime. These include: criminology's resistance to feminist intervention; the pleasures of reading detective fiction; ambiguities of victimization and social justice in the city; sacrificial structures in the law's response to conjugal homicide; policing the ethnicity of the 'illegal' immigrant; defensive responses to the limits of representation in the Bulger affair; the governmental strategies of campaigns against single mothers; and the fatalism of the spectacle of HIV/AIDS in criminal justice policy.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Social services & welfare, criminology Crime & criminology

• Full title: Imagining Crime
• Author: Alison Young
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 240
• EAN: 9780803986220
• ISBN: 080398622X
• ID: 04715434
• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Weight: 490 g
• Dimensions: 234 × 156 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 08. January 1996

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