Crime, harm and consumerism /

Crime, harm and consumerism /

This book offers a collection of cutting-edge essays on the relationship between crime, harm and consumer culture. Although consumer culture has been addressed across the social sciences, it has yet to be fully explored in criminology. The editors bring together an impressive list of authors with or...

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Other Authors: Hall, Steve, 1955- (Editor), Kuldova, Tereza (Editor), Horsley, Mark (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Milton : Routledge, 2020.
Subjects:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology
Consumption (Economics) > Case studies.
Criminology > Case studies.
Online Access:Taylor & Francis
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Series
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • List of contributors
  • 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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