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Chapter 7

Links from the book:

Cultural Criminology:
http://www.culturalcriminology.org/
This site includes key writings, biographies, photographs, films, event listings, and links, with special focus on cultural criminology at the University of Kent.

CultureX:
www.indiana.edu/~culturex/
Maintained by Professor Stephanie Kane, this site offers a guide to issues in culture, law, and crime.

StopViolence.Com:
http://stopviolence.com/ and Paul’s Justice Page www.paulsjusticepage.com/ Maintained by Professor Paul Leighton, these two sites offer a variety of resources, essays, images, and links relating to contemporary crime and crime control issues.

Further links of interest:

Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture:
www.albany.edu/scj/jcjpc/index.html
Has full text articles of most recent publications.

Crime culture:
www.crimeculture.com/
Aims to explore different critical approaches to the study of crime literature/film, and to be as entertaining and wide-ranging as possible.

Journal for Crime, Conflict and Media Culture:
www.jc2m.co.uk/
A peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal exploring the critical nexus of media culture, criminal justice and conflict.

Crimewatch:
www.bbc.co.uk/crime/
Definitive crime site from the BBC.

The Working Group on Law and Culture (formerly called the Working Group on Ethnic Customs, Assimilation and American Law):
www.ssrc.org/programs/law_culture/
Has studied how the United States and other liberal democracies accommodate cultural practices that depart from social norms codified within their legal systems, such as child marriage, corporal punishment, and female circumcision.

Perspectives on Law & Contemporary Culture (PLCC):
www.ku.edu/~plcc/
A non-credit student organization at the University of Kansas School of Law. An online publication that explores the interaction of law and culture in today’s society, PLCC endeavors to provide timely information and commentary related to some of the most important legal questions facing society while also taking time to highlight some of the less important but more entertaining interactions between law and culture.