Monsters, Law, Crime

Monsters, Law, Crime

by DW DukeCecil Greek Jonathan Frauley and others
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 18/11/2020

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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.

ISBN:
9781683930808
9781683930808
Category:
Crime & criminology
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
18-11-2020
Language:
English
Publisher:
University Press Copublishing Division
Lucy Williams

Lucy Williams is an experienced researcher with a PhD from the University of Liverpool. She specialises in the history of crime, women and gender, and the social history of the nineteenth century.

For more than three years she has been part of the 'Digital Panopticon', a project tracing 90,000 men and women from London either imprisoned in England or transported to Australia.

It is her work on this project which inspired Convicts in the Colonies. Her first book, Wayward Women, was published with Pen and Sword in 2016.

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