Crime, Harm and Consumerism

Author:   Steve Hall ,  Tereza Kuldova ,  Mark Horsley
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Pages:   180
Publication Date:   23 January 2020
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Author:   Steve Hall ,  Tereza Kuldova ,  Mark Horsley
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138388628


ISBN 10:   1138388629
Pages:   180
Publication Date:   23 January 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Introduction Part 1. Historical and Theoretical Perspectives 1. Consumer Culture and English History’s Lost Object 2. The Libertine: Criminal Luxury, the Sadean System, and Materialist Horror 3. The Commodification of Abstinence Part 2. Contexts and Case Studies 4. Mass Indebtedness and the Luxury of Payment Means 5. Luxury Brands in the Wrong Hands: Of Harleys, Harm and Sovereignty 6. Substances: The Luxurious, the Sublime and the Harmful 7. Gambling and Harm in 24/7 Capitalism: Reflections from the Post-Disciplinary Present 8. Toxic Sovereignty: Understanding Fraud as the Expression of Special Liberty within Late-Capitalism 9. Spy vs Spy: The Surveillance State of Social Media Index

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Steve Hall is an Emeritus Professor of Criminology who worked at the universities of Northumbria, Durham and Teesside. Essentially a criminologist, he has also published in the fields of sociology, history and radical philosophy. He is author of Theorizing Crime and Deviance, and co-author of The Rise of the Right, Revitalizing Criminological Theory, Riots and Political Protest, Rethinking Social Exclusion, Criminal Identities and Consumer Culture and Violent Night. He is co-editor of New Directions in Criminology. Tereza Kuldova is a social anthropologist and Senior Researcher at the Work Research Institute, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway. She is the author of the monographs How Outlaws Win Friends and Influence People, Luxury Indian Fashion: A Social Critique and editor of Fashion India: Spectacular Capitalism, as well as Urban Utopias: Excess and Expulsion in Neoliberal South Asia and Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs and Street Gangs: Scheming Legality, Resisting Criminalization. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of the open-access peer-reviewed Journal of Extreme Anthropology. Mark Horsley is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Chester. He is the author of The Dark Side of Prosperity, a book about the causes and consequences of mass indebtedness in the run up to and aftermath of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis. In addition to other works on credit and debt, he has also published on criminological theory and the history of crime.

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