City Limits: Crime, Consumer Culture and the Urban Experience

by Keith Hayward

City Limits contributes to a growing body of work under the umbrella of 'cultural criminology', which attempts to bring an appreciation of cultural change to an understanding of crime in late modernity (Hayward and Young 2004). Hayward presents an ambitious theoretical analysis that attempts to inspire a 'cultural approach' to understanding the 'crime-city nexus' and, in particular, to re-address 'strain' and the concept of 'relative deprivation'...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1904385036
• ISBN13: 9781904385035
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Routledge Cavendish
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.0" x 9.1"