This text provides a perspective on the relationship between culture and crime which introduces the idea of "cultural criminology", and examines how it can be applied to criminal and criminalized activity.
Part 1 Theoretical considerations: dimensions of cultural criminology;
the carnival and excitement of crime; consuming crime. Part 2 Crime, culture
and everyday life: law and leisure - the policing of popular pastimes; art as
crime - grafitti artists as criminals; the filming of crime - the case of
CCTV; carnival and cars; performing New Age crime; tree dwellers and dissent;
rave and carnivalesque; knives and weapons; rap and the culture of dissent;
conclusion - the future for cultural criminology.
