Monsters, Law, Crime: Explorations in Gothic Criminology

Monsters, Law, Crime: Explorations in Gothic Criminology - Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Law, Culture, and the Humanities

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Publisher's Synopsis

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. "Monsters" may refer to allegorical or symbolic fantastic beings (as in literature, film, legends, myths, etc.), or actual or real life monsters, as well as the interplay/ambiguity between the two general types of "monsters." This edited collection thus explores and updates contemporary discussions of the emergent and evolving fronts of monster theory in relation to cutting-edge research on law and crime, and may be seen as extensions of a Gothic Criminology, generally construed. Gothic Criminology refers to a theoretical framework 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). Succinctly paraphrased, noting the proliferation of Gothic modes of narration and visualization in American popular culture, academia and even public policy, Picart and Greek proposed a framework, which they described as a "Gothic Criminology" to attempt to analyze the fertile lacunae 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.

Book information

ISBN: 9781683930792
Publisher: University Press Copublishing Division
Imprint: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 364.25
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 310
Weight: 680g
Height: 242mm
Width: 162mm
Spine width: 25mm