Cultural Criminology
Definition
An approach that studies crime, deviance and their control as expressions of meaning, style and emotion, drawing on subcultural theory, media studies and existential sociology rather than positivist or rational choice models.
Related terms
- Edgework
- Stephen Lyng's term, introduced in a 1990 article, for voluntary risk taking that pushes a person toward the boundary between control and...
- Visual Criminology
- A field that treats images, mugshots, crime scene photographs, film and surveillance footage, as primary evidence of how crime and justice are...
- Carnival of Crime
- A phrase associated with cultural criminology's reading of crime and its policing as a spectacle, staged and consumed with an audience in...
- Iconography of Crime
- Eamonn Carrabine's framework tracing how a small set of visual conventions, such as the hooded suspect or the barred cell, recur across...
- Iconography of Crime and Punishment
- Eamonn Carrabine's approach to tracing recurring visual conventions, such as the hooded suspect or the barred cell, across news, art and official...
- Late-Modern Criminology
- The broader label for approaches, including cultural and visual criminology, that treat media saturation and status anxiety in contemporary life as generating...
- Moral Panic
- A period of intense, media-driven public anxiety about a group or behaviour perceived as an exceptional threat to social order. Coined by...
- Seductions of Crime
- Jack Katz's phrase for the situational, emotional and sensory attractions that draw a person toward committing an offence in the moment, as...
- The Seductions of Crime
- Jack Katz's 1988 argument that offending is drawn out by the situated, sensory experience of doing the act itself, described through thrill,...
Explained in these topics
- Cultural Criminology and Visual Criminology (UGC-NET Unit IV)An approach that reads crime, deviance and their control as expressions of meaning, style and emotion rather than as outcomes of stable traits or rational calc...
- Cultural Criminology and Visual Criminology