RT Article
T1 Cultural criminology and the politics of meaning
JF Critical criminology
VO 21
IS 3
SP 257
OP 271
A1 Ferrell, Jeff
LA English
YR 2013
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/185961874X
AB Cultural criminology focuses on situational, subcultural, and mediated constructions of meaning around issues of crime and crime control. In this sense cultural criminology is designed for critical engagement with the politics of meaning, and for critical intervention into those politics. Yet the broader enterprise of critical criminology engages with the politics of meaning as well; in confronting the power relations of justice and injustice, critical criminologists of all sorts investigate the social and cultural processes by which situations are defined, groups are categorized, and human consequences are understood. The divergence between cultural criminology and other critical criminologies, then, may be defined less by meaning than by the degree of methodological militancy with which meaning is pursued. In any case, this shared concern with the politics of meaning suggests a number of innovations and interventions that cultural criminologists and other critical criminologists might explore.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 269-271
K1 Break Window
K1 Crime Control
K1 Criminal Justice
K1 Critical Criminology
K1 Moral Panic
DO 10.1007/s10612-013-9186-3