{"product_id":"9780803986237-imagining-crime","title":"Imagining Crime","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis book offers an original and challenging reading of the `crimino-legal complex′ - criminology, criminal justice, criminal law, the media and everyday experiences - in the light of cultural studies and feminist theory.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eThis book offers an original and challenging reading of the `crimino-legal complex′ - criminology, criminal justice, criminal law, the media and everyday experiences - in the light of cultural studies and feminist theory.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThrough an exploration of the crisis engendered by the failure of the crimino-legal complex to solve the problems of crime and criminality, Alison Young exposes the cultural dimension of its institutions and practices. She analyzes the far-reaching effects of the cultural value given to crime, showing it to be rooted in a powerful nexus of the body, language, the community and everyday life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eImagining Crime\u003c\/b\u003e examines a number of key events and issues which have signalled shifts in the representation of crime. These include: criminology′s resistance to feminist intervention; the pleasures of reading detective fiction; ambiguities of victimization and social justice in the city; sacrificial structures in the law′s response to conjugal homicide; policing the ethnicity of the `illegal′ immigrant; defensive responses to the limits of representation in the Bulger affair; the governmental strategies of campaigns against single mothers; and the fatalism of the spectacle of HIV\/AIDS in criminal justice policy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55211260641654,"sku":"9780803986237","price":63.82,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_33063149.jpg?v=1738892401","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780803986237-imagining-crime","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}