Crime and Punishment in Contemporary Culture

by Claire Grant

Today, questions about how and why societies punish are deeply emotive and hotly contested. In Crime and Punishment in Contemporary Culture, Claire Grant argues that criminal justice is a key site for the negotiation of new collective identities and modes of belonging. Exploring both popular cultural forms and changes in crime policies and criminal law, Grant elaborates on new forms of critical engagement with the politics of crime and punishment...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415414091
• ISBN13: 9780415414098
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.2" x 9.2"