Monsters in and Among Us: Toward a Gothic Criminology

ISBN-10: 0838641598
ISBN-13: 9780838641590
Category: Literary Criticism
Pages: 304
Language: English
Published: 2007
Publisher: Associated University Presse
Authors: Caroline Joan Picart, Cecil E. Greek

Description

Rather than assuming that film and the media tell us little about the reality of criminological phenomena, "Gothic criminology," as instantiated in this collection of essays, recognizes the complementarity of critical academic and aesthetic accounts of deviant behavior as intersecting with the public policy in complex, non-reductive ways.".

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