Transgressive Imaginations: Crime, Deviance and Culture

This book focuses upon the breaking of rules and taboos involved in 'doing crime', including violent crime as represented in fictive texts and ethnographic research. It includes chapters on topics of urgent contemporary interest such as asylum seekers, sex work, serial killers, school shooters, crimes of poverty and understandings of 'madness'.

Author: M. O'Neill, L. Seal
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 05/11/2012
Pages: 187
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.40w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780230577848

About the Author
MAGGIE O'NEILL Reader in Criminology at Durham University, UK. Her previous publications include Sex Work Now (co-edited with R. Campbell), Prostitution and Feminism, Prostitution: A Reader (co-edited with R. Matthews), Asylum, Migration and Community and Adorno, Culture and Feminism.
LIZZIE SEAL Lecturer in Criminology at Durham University, UK.Her previous publications include Women, Murder and Femininity: Gender Representations of Women Who Kill. She is currently researching public responses to the death penalty in England and Wales.