Crime, Deviance and Popular Culture: International and Multidisciplinary Perspectives (Palgrave Studies in Crime, Media and Culture)

This book explores the links between crime, deviance and popular culture in our highly-mediatised era, offering an insight into the cultural processes through which particular practices acquire a criminal or deviant status, and come to be seen as social problems. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, the edited collection brings together international scholars across various areas of specialisation to provide an up-to-date analysis of some important and topical issues in 21st-century popular culture. The chapters look at different aspects of popular culture, including fictional detective narratives and the true crime genre, popular media constructions of sexual deviance and Islamophobia, sports, graffiti and outlaw biker subcultures. The authors examine a wide range of relevant case studies through a number of crime and deviance-related theories. __Crime, Deviance and Popular Culture__ will be of importance to scholars and students across several disciplines, including criminology, sociology of deviance, social anthropology, media studies, cultural studies, television studies and linguistics. Front Matter ....Pages i-xvii Introduction: Crime and Deviance through the Lens of Popular Culture (Dimitris Akrivos, Alexandros K. Antoniou)....Pages 1-9 Front Matter ....Pages 11-11 Deviant Detectives in the Scandinavian Welfare State: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Bridge (Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen)....Pages 13-39 The Representation of Crime and Criminals in the TV Series Sherlock and Elementary: A Corpus Study (Archontoula Menti)....Pages 41-71 Person of Interest or Crime and Surveillance on Post-9/11 Network TV (Anna Krawczyk-Łaskarzewska)....Pages 73-88 Front Matter ....Pages 89-89 A Televised Social Problem Construction? Pushing Back Against the Invisibility of the Male Rape Victim in American Crime (Dimitris Akrivos)....Pages 91-119 The ‘Cool Girl’ Strikes Back? A Socio-Legal Analysis of Gone Girl (Amanda Spalding)....Pages 121-145 Neoliberal Enticements, Neoliberal Dangers: An Ethnographic Content Analysis of Everyday Sexuality in Fresh Meat, Greek, and Sweet Vicious (Demetris Hadjigeorgiou)....Pages 147-174 Front Matter ....Pages 175-175 Wrongful Conviction, Pop Culture, and Achieving Justice in the Digital Age (Greg Stratton)....Pages 177-201 Aftermath: The True Crime Memoir Comes of Age (Jean Murley)....Pages 203-229 Front Matter ....Pages 231-231 Popular Culture, Populism and the Figure of the ‘Criminal’ On the Rising Popular Support of Outlaw Bikers and Anti-Establishment Resentment (Tereza Kuldova)....Pages 233-258 Instagraff—The Influence of Web 2.0, Social Media, and User-Created Content Upon Graffiti Culture Performed in Cyber/Space (Nicola Harding)....Pages 259-286 Front Matter ....Pages 287-287 Portrayals of Middle Eastern Background Communities as Criminal in Australian Popular Media (Megan McElhone)....Pages 289-314 Modern Sports as a Deviant Practice? How Not to Play Sports According to the Islamic Online Fatâwâ (Alberto Testa)....Pages 315-334 Conclusion: Popular Criminology Revisited (Dimitris Akrivos, Alexandros K. Antoniou)....Pages 335-338 Back Matter ....Pages 339-343 This volume explores the links between crime, deviance and popular culture in our highly-mediatised era, offering an insight into the cultural processes through which particular practices acquire a criminal or deviant status, and come to be seen as social problems. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, the edited collection brings together international scholars across various areas of specialisation to provide an up-to-date analysis of some important and topical issues in 21st-century popular culture. The chapters look at different aspects of popular culture, including fictional detective narratives and the true crime genre, popular media constructions of sexual deviance and Islamophobia, sports, graffiti and outlaw biker subcultures