Criminology, Deviance, and the Silver Screen: The Fictional Reality and the Criminological Imagination

By Jon Frauley

Book Overview

This text argues for the usefulness of fictional realities for criminological theorizing and analysis. It illustrates that a creative and critical social scientific practice requires craft norms rather than commercial norms that threaten to completely colonize higher education.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230615163
• ISBN13: 9780230615168
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 249 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.3"