RT Article
T1 Deviant leisure: A criminological perspective
JF Theoretical criminology
VO 22
IS 1
SP 63
OP 82
A1 Smith, Oliver 1977-
A2 Raymen, Thomas
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1679115359
AB This article explains why an understanding of deviant leisure is significant for criminology. Through reorienting our understanding of ‘deviance' from a contravention of norms and values to encompassing engagement in behaviour and actions that contravene a moral ‘duty to the other', the new ‘deviant leisure' perspective outlined here describes activities that through their adherence to cultural values inscribed by consumer capitalism, have the potential to result in harm. Using the ideological primacy of consumer capitalism as a point of departure, we explore the potential for harm that lies beneath the surface of even the most embedded and culturally accepted forms of leisure. Such an explanation requires a reading that brings into focus the subjective, socially corrosive, environmental and embedded harms that arise as a result of the commodification of leisure. In this way, this article aims to act as a conceptual foundation for diverse yet coherent research into deviant leisure.
K1 Consumerism
K1 Critical criminology
K1 Cultural criminology
K1 Deviance
K1 Deviant leisure
K1 Environmental harm
K1 Leisure
K1 Social harm
K1 Ultra-realism
K1 Devianz
K1 Kritische Kriminologie
DO 10.1177/1362480616660188