Deviant Leisure: Criminological Perspectives on Leisure and Harm

by Oliver Smith

Book Overview

This book brings together a collection of critical essays that challenge the existing dogma of leisure as an unmitigated social good, in order to examine the commodification and marketisation of leisure across a number of key sites. Leisure and consumer culture have become symbolic of the individual freedoms of liberal society, ostensibly presenting individuals with the opportunity to display individual creativity, cultural competence and taste. This...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030177386
• ISBN13: 9783030177386
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 439 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.3"