| Monsters, Law, Crime: Explorations in Gothic Criminology Contributor(s): Picart, Caroline Joan Kay S. (Editor), Picart, Caroline Joan Kay S. (Contribution by), Browning, John Edgar (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 1683930797 ISBN-13: 9781683930792 Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press OUR PRICE: $138.60 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Criminology - Law | Criminal Law - General - Social Science | Folklore & Mythology |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6" W x 9" (1.29 lbs) 310 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |