Making Trouble: Cultural Constraints of Crime, Deviance, and Control

by Jeff Ferrell

Book Overview

In Making Trouble leading scholars in criminology, sociology, criminal justice, women's studies, and social history explore the mediated cultural dynamics that construct images and understanding of crime, deviance, and control. Contributors examine the intertwined practices of the mass media, criminal justice agencies, political power holders, and criminal and deviant subcultures in producing and consuming contested representations of legality and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0202306186
• ISBN13: 9780202306186
• Release Date: April 1999
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 390 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"