Beschreibung:
Offering the first in-depth investigation into the relationship between today's crinimal identities and consumer culture, this book uses unique data - taken from criminals locked in areas of permanent recession - to uncover feelings and attitudes towards a variety of criminal activities.
Preface 1. Introduction: The Return to Motivation 2. Life on the Precipice: Economic Change and Acute Marginalisation 3. Consumption and Identification: Some Insights into Desires and Motivations 4. Criminal Biographies: Two Case Studies 5. Consumerism and the Counterculture 6. Critical Reflections on the Intellectual Roots on Post-war Criminological Theory 7. Myths of Exclusion and Resistance: A Critique of some Current Thinking on Crime and Culture 8. Consumerism, Narcissism and the Reorientation of the Western Super-ego 9. Conclusion: Consumerism, Crime and Pseudo-pacification Process