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Interrogating Popular Culture: Deviance, Justice and Social Order
Sean E. Anderson adn Gregory Howard, eds.
(Paperback)
1998, 130 pages
ISBN: 0-911577-42-4
$25.00

"Each essay which makes up this book engages with these concerns in interesting and sometimes innovative ways. Contributions to the collection reveal the breadth of possibility opened up by inquiries into popular culture and criminology." from a review in Current Issues in Criminal Justice, July 2000.

This anthology features 9 articles reprinted from the Journal of Justice and Popular Culture [JCJPC]. Topics include: crime and deviance in the context of broader cultural patterns and conflicts; how images of predation and inhuman evil shape public attitudes toward violent crime; the significance of rhetoric in the making of justice policy; the continuing influence of the violent U.S. frontier on contemporary America; the influence of television imagery on public perceptions of the criminal justice system; how cinematic images reflect and refract the crisis of patriarchy in an era of political and cultural conservatism; the response of American culture to insanity; comic books' messages on key cultural issues; and the value of non-traditional texts as educational devices. Contributors include: Chris Amirault, Rainer Eisfeld, J. Forbes Farmer, Jeff Ferrell, Andrew Karmen, Connie McNeely, Neffrey Niesel and Jeff Williams. Recommended for classes on social deviance.

In the Foreword, Prof. Phillip Jenkins says, "...the editors and contributors of the JCJPC deserve the highest praise for their academic entrepreneurship. This book reflects the best of their work."

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