50 Dark Destinations

Crime and Contemporary Tourism
From the Alcatraz East Crime Museum to Jack the Ripper guided tours, 'dark tourism' is now a multi-million-pound global industry. Highlighting 50 travel destinations across six continents, expert criminologists, psychologists and historians expose a worrying trend in contemporary consumer culture in which many of us partake.

From the Alcatraz East Crime Museum and Jack the Ripper guided tours to the Phnom Penh killing fields, ‘dark tourism’ is now a multi-million-pound global industry. Even in the most pleasant tourist destinations, underlying harms are constantly perpetuated, affecting both consumers and those who work or live around such tourist hotspots. Highlighting 50 travel destinations across six continents, expert criminologists, psychologists and historians explore the past and contemporary issues which we often disregard during our everyday leisure.

This captivating book is the ‘go-to’ guide for anyone interested in crime and deviance-related tourism. Accessible and digestible, it exposes a worrying trend in contemporary consumer culture, in which many of us partake.

Contributor: Kyla Bavin (Contributions by), Craig Kelly (Edited by), Emma Winlow (Contributions by), Jane Richards (Contributions by), Simon Winlow (Contributions by), Dan Rusu (Contributions by), Duncan John Frankis (Contributions by), Melindy Brown (Contributions by), Travis Linnemann (Contributions by), Lucas Danos (Contributions by), Tammy Ayres (Contributions by), Kevin Hoffin (Contributions by), Anthony Lloyd (Contributions by), John Bahadur Lamb (Contributions by), Sarah Hodgkinson (Contributions by), Jardar Nuland Østbø (Contributions by), Peter Joyce (Contributions by), Alice Storey (Contributions by), Max Hart (Contributions by), Adam Lynes (Edited by), Thomas Raymen (Contributions by), Ian Cook (Contributions by), Oliver Smith (Contributions by), Gary Potter (Contributions by), Neil Chakraborti (Contributions by), Luke Telford (Contributions by), Wendy Laverick (Contributions by), David Wilson (Contributions by), James Treadwell (Edited by), Michael Rowe (Contributions by), Eveleigh Buck-Matthews (Contributions by), Eamonn Carrabine (Contributions by), Tereza Østbø Kuldova (Contributions by), Joe Garrihy (Contributions by), Nicholas Gibbs (Contributions by), Patrick Berry (Contributions by), Hannah London (Contributions by), Rowland Atkinson (Contributions by), Jack Denham (Contributions by), Selina Patel Nascimento (Contributions by), Donna Yates (Contributions by), Keith Hayward (Contributions by), Steve Wadley (Contributions by), Craig Ancrum (Contributions by), Laura Hammond (Contributions by), Anna Sergi (Contributions by), Natasha Pope (Contributions by), Emiline Smith (Contributions by), Grace Gallacher (Contributions by), Orlando Woods (Contributions by), Robin West (Contributions by), Ben Colliver (Contributions by), Jenna Page (Contributions by), Sarah Jones (Contributions by), Angus Nurse (Contributions by), Katie Lowe (Contributions by), Sophie Gregory (Contributions by)

Pages: 424

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