This book explores the links between crime deviance and popular culture in our
highly-mediatised era offering an insight into the cultural processes through which particular
practices acquire a criminal or deviant status and come to be seen as social problems.
Adopting a multidisciplinary approach the edited collection brings together international
scholars across various areas of specialisation to provide an up-to-date analysis of some
important and topical issues in 21st-century popular culture. The chapters look at different
aspects of popular culture including fictional detective narratives and the true crime genre
popular media constructions of sexual deviance and Islamophobia sports graffiti and outlaw
biker subcultures. The authors examine a wide range of relevant case studies through a number
of crime and deviance-related theories. Crime Deviance and Popular Culture will be of
importance to scholars and students across several disciplines including criminology
sociology of deviance social anthropology media studies cultural studies television studies
and linguistics.
