Criminal Identities and Consumer Culture: Crime, Exclusion and the New Culture of Narcissm

by Steve Hall, Craig Ancrum, Simon Winlow

Book Overview

This book offers the first in-depth investigation into the relationship between today's criminal identities and consumer culture. Using unique data taken from criminals locked in areas of permanent recession, the book aims to uncover feelings and attitudes towards a variety of criminal activities, investigating the incorporation of hearts and minds into consumer culture's surrogate social world and highlighting the relationship between the lived...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 184392255X
• ISBN13: 9781843922551
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Willan Publishing (UK)
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"