Monsters, Law, Crime

Explorations in Gothic Criminology

AvCaroline Joan "Kay" S. Picart

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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Monsters, Law, Crime, an edited collection composed of essays written by prominent U.S. and international experts in Law, Criminology, Sociology, Anthropology, Communication and Film, constitutes a rigorous attempt to explore fertile interdisciplinary inquiries into “monsters” and “monster-talk,” and law and crime. This edited collection explores and updates contemporary discussions of the emergent and evolving frontiers of monster theory in relation to cutting-edge research on law and crime as extensions of a Gothic Criminology. This theoretical framework was initially developed by Caroline Joan “Kay” S. Picart, a Philosophy and Film professor turned Attorney and Law professor, and Cecil Greek, a Sociologist (Picart and Greek 2008). Picart and Greek proposed a Gothic Criminology to analyze the fertile synapses connecting the “real” and the “reel” in the flow of Gothic metaphors and narratives that abound around criminological phenomena that populate not only popular culture but also academic and public policy discourses. Picart's edited collection adapts the framework to focus predominantly on law and the social sciences.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-11-18
Mått:162 x 242 x 25 mm
Vikt:680 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Law, Culture, and the Humanities
Antal sidor:310
Förlag:Associated University Presses
ISBN:9781683930792

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Caroline Joan ‘Kay’ S. Picart is Attorney at Law practicing in criminal and family law and is Adjunct Professor of Law at Florida A & M University, Orlando, Florida.

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Monsters, Law, Crime reminds us in a graphic way how different societies have taken their fears of the out-of-the ordinary and portrayed and treated those deemed to be "other". They range from victims of misogyny in Israel and Jihadists through the mentally ill in Victorian Britain to modern day medical serial killers. There is much more besides. How the media over the years have responded to a variety of challenges to social norms is the subject of this collection. This happens in crime narratives, newspapers, television and film. These essays provide a fascinating kaleidoscope of how the various media have adopted the monster form as a way of showing these challenges. This is an absorbing collection of essays which shifts the focus away from the mundanity of the deviance encountered on a daily basis in the justice process. It shows how Stan Cohen's “Folk Devils” have both a rich tradition across cultures and a likely long-term future. The contexts of the moral panics change but the resort to the demonisation of the other is a recurrent feature which this collection effectively illustrates.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: Explorations in Gothic Criminology: Ruminating on Monsters, Law, and Crime — Caroline Joan 'Kay' S. PicartI. Of Myths and MonstersChapter One: “Deeds of Treachery and Violence and Lust and Cruelty”: Revisiting Freud’s Primal Crimes in Aboriginal Central Australia — John MortonChapter Two: Criminal Anthropology, Fabulism, and Criminology’s Unacknowledged Teratological Lineage — Jon FrauleyChapter Three: Vampire Fictions and the Conflation of Violent Criminality with Real Vampirism: A Practical Overview — John Edgar Browning and DJ WilliamsII. Contagion, Monstrosity, EthicsChapter Four: A Double-Tap “Lilith Moral Panic” in Israel, 2014: How Labeling Others as “Monsters” Conceals Their Victimization — Orit KamirChapter Five: Evil-By-Proxy and Everyday Monsters: Towards a Moral Sociology for Overcoming the Passive Observation of Evil —Michael Hviid JacobsenChapter Six: Monstering Madness: Criminal Lunatics in Broadmoor 1863–1913— Lucy Williams, Sandra Walklate, and Barry GodfreyIII