Maguire, Morgan & Reiner: The Oxford Handbook of Criminology 4e 
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Chapter 04
What is cultural about cultural criminology?
Evaluate the proposition that crime 'is being packaged and marketed to young people as a romantic, exciting, cool, and fashionable cultural symbol'.
Do you agree that crime is not caused by pressures on the offender, but is an autonomous exercise of human choice and creativity that can be understood but not explained? (See also Chapters 1, 2).
To what extent has crime become a valuable commodity in late modern consumer society?
Assess the view that the purpose of criminology is to appreciate the seductions and meaning of crime, not to bolster repressive control policies.
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