Sociology and Social Research Essay Sample
Crime, Media and Culture, School of Social Policy.
Learning Resources;
Sociology and Criminology
- Cultural vs. ‘Orthodox’ Criminology
- Crime in Late Modernity
- Crime, Emotions, Rationality
- Consumer Culture and Crime
- Carnival, Spectacle, Transgression
- Crime and the Media: Then and Now
- Moral Panic: Then & Now
- Crime and New Media
- New Media and ISIS
- Street Culture, Crime, Commerce and Control
References;
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Cornish, D.B. and Clarke, R.V. (eds) (1986). The Reasoning Criminal: Rational Choice Perspectives on Offending. London: Springer-Verlag.
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Exum, M.L. (2002). ‘The Application And Robustness Of The Rational Choice Perspective In The Study Of Intoxicated And Angry Intentions To Aggress’, 40(4), pp. 933-966
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Felson, M. (1998). Crime and Everyday Life. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press.
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Ferrell, J., Hayward, K. & Young, J. (2015). Cultural Criminology: An Invitation (2nd Ed.) London: SAGE Publications.
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Hayward, K.J. (2007). ‘Situational Crime Prevention and its Discontents: Rational Choice Theory versus the ‘Culture of Now’’, Social Policy & Administration, 41(3), pp.232–250.
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Matthews, R. (2016). ‘Realist criminology, the new aetiological crisis and the crime drop’, International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 5(3), pp.2‐11.
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Snyder, G. (2009). Graffiti Lives: Beyond the Tag in New York's Urban Underground. New York: New York University Press.
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Wilson, J.Q. (1975). Thinking About Crime. New York: Basic Books.
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Young, J. (2011). The Criminological Imagination. Cambridge: Polity.
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Kubrin, C. (2005), ‘Gangstas, Thugs and Hustlas: Identity and the Code of the Street in Rap Music’, Social Problems, 52 (3), 360-378