CRIM 2650 Lecture Notes - Birds Eye View, Critical Criminology, Chav
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Lecture overview: brief recap, what is cultural criminology, what is subcultural criminology, examples of subcultural criminology, limitations. Cultural criminology is concerned with the production and exchange of meanings between different members of a society or a social group. Criminology no longer insulated from academic trends (e. g. postmodern theory) Recent development still in a phase of development so there are new directions. Subcultural criminology entails arejection of positivist and administravie criminology. Focuses on real life subcultural participants asd how they use media images to form their own subculrutal lifestyle and group identity. Criminological aesthetics does not entail this rejection of mainstream crim. Examines repreentations of crime and crminalty in the media and not how those media images are used. And those people watch our screens to figure out how they should form their lifesdtyles and identities. It entails the placing of crime and its control in the context of culture" (hayward and.