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Chapter 7

References from the book:

Ferrell, J., Hayward, K., and Young, J. (2008) Cultural Criminology: An Invitation. London: Sage.
Attempting to develop a relatively comprehensive account of crime, culture, and cultural criminology, this book considers not only topics like media, emotions, and everyday life, but the methods of cultural criminology, and its history and future.

Ferrell, J., Hayward, K., Morrison, W., and Presdee, M. (eds) (2004) Cultural Criminology Unleashed. London: GlassHouse Press.
This book expands the theoretical and substantive range of cultural criminology, and includes research into culture and crime across a variety of local, regional, and national settings.

Ferrell, J. and Sanders, C.R. (eds) (1995) Cultural Criminology. Boston: Northeastern University Press.
The first book to define the new criminological approach known as ‘cultural criminology’, this work builds from earlier British and American studies of crime and culture, and includes chapters on mass media, music, subcultures, and style.

Cohen, S. (2002 [1972, 1980, 1987]) Folk Devils and Moral Panics (3rd edn). London: Routledge.
Now in its third edition, this book remains a classic study in the intersections of culture and crime. The ongoing vitality and importance of Cohen’s ‘folk devil’ and ‘moral panic’ concepts are highlighted in a new introduction to this third edition.

Presdee, M. (2000) Cultural Criminology and the Carnival of Crime. London: Routledge.
This book utilizes the lens of cultural criminology to examine a wide range of everyday practices—raving, joyriding, and sadomasochism, for example—and finds among them the shattered remains of human carnival.

Hayward, K. (2004) City Limits: Crime, Consumer Culture and the Urban Experience. London: GlassHouse Press.
This book offers the reader a series of unique cultural insights into the way that urban space is changing. Expanding the vision of criminology by drawing on cultural studies, social theory, urban studies, architectural theory and research into urban consumerism practices, Hayward argues that consumption is now central to understanding the crime-city relationship.

Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal. London: SAGE.
This award-winning criminological journal provides a forum for international research into crime and culture. The journal includes articles on crime and media, and on the cultural dynamics of crime and criminal justice; it also includes photographs, photographic essays, drawings, and poems, relating to crime and culture.

Silver, Tony, director (1983) Style Wars. New York: Plexifilm.
Produced by Henry Chalfant, this historic documentary traces the evolution of hip hop graffiti within the larger hip hop culture of music and dance.

Valdez, Luis, director (1982) Zoot Suit. Los Angeles: Universal Studios.
Based on the highly regarded stage play, this film examines the historical emergence of the stylized Latino Zoot Suiter in the United States (particularly Los Angeles), and explores the cultural politics of the 1940s ‘zoot suit riots’ in Los Angeles.

Daniel, Bill, director (2005) Who Is Bozo Texino?
Daniel spent many years making—and living—this film, a rolling, hypnotic journey inside the illicit world of American railroad hobos and hobo freight train graffiti.

Further References:

Amster, Randall. (2004) Street People and the Contested Realms of Public Space. New York: LFB.
Amster offers a powerful case study in the legal and cultural tensions between democratic public space and upscale urban development.

Becker, Howard S. (1963) Outsiders: Studies in the Sociology of Deviance. New York: Free Press.
Outsiders remains an essential, foundational work in the development of a criminology attentive to situated meaning and perception.

Ferrell, Jeff. (1996) Crimes of Style: Urban Graffiti and the Politics of Criminality. Boston: Northeastern University Press.
Crimes of Style offers an account from inside the culture of hip hop graffiti, and situates this hip hop graffiti culture within contemporary conflicts over urban space and urban politics.

Ferrell, Jeff. (2002) Tearing Down the Streets: Adventures in Urban Anarchy. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
This book explores the cultures of street musicians, skate punks, bicycle activists, pirate radio operators, and others, locating these groups within a long history of anarchist politics and resistance, and considering their role in contemporary urban conflicts.

Ferrell, Jeff (2005) Empire of Scrounge: Inside the Urban Underground of Dumpster Diving, Trash Picking, and Street Scrounging. New York: New York University Press.
Empire of Scrounge provides a first-hand account of the author’s adventures as an urban scrounger, and links these adventures to a critique of late capitalist consumer culture and the criminalization of everyday urban life.

Ferrell, Jeff & Hamm, Mark S. (eds.) Ethnography at the Edge: Crime, Deviance, and Field Research. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1998.  In this collection, criminologists offer first person accounts of criminological field research, recalling its dangers and surprises, and arguing for its importance in understanding the cultural dimensions of crime.

Ferrell, Jeff & Sanders, Clinton R. (eds.) (1995) Cultural Criminology. Boston: Northeastern University Press. The first book to define the new criminological approach known as "cultural criminology," this work builds from earlier British and American studies of crime and culture, and includes chapters on mass media, music, subcultures, and style.

Hall, Stuart, Critcher, Chas, Jefferson, Tony, Clarke, John & Roberts, Brian (1978) Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State, and Law and Order. London: Macmillan.
One of the foundational works in the study of crime and culture, this book examines the symbolic construction of crime, crime control, and public perception.  

Parnell, Philip C. & Kane, Stephanie C. (eds.) (2003) Crime’s Power: Anthropologists and the Ethnography of Crime. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Crime’s Power offers an important collection of essays in which anthropologists explore various interconnections between crime and culture.