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Making Trouble: Cultural Constructions of Crime, Deviance, and Control » (1st Edition)

Book cover image of Making Trouble: Cultural Constructions of Crime, Deviance, and Control by Jeff Ferrell

Authors: Neil Websdale (Editor), Jeff Ferrell
ISBN-13: 9780202306186, ISBN-10: 0202306186
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Date Published: December 1999
Edition: 1st Edition

Author Biography: Jeff Ferrell

Book Synopsis

In Making Trouble, leading scholars in criminology, sociology, criminal justice, women's studies, and social history explore the mediated cultural dynamics that govern image construction and understanding of a wide range of contemporary controversies (for instance, drug dealing, freight train graffi ti, anti-abortion violence, etc.). Edited within unifying central themes such as "situated media"; the evolution of policing and social control; and the gendered construction of crime,
deviance, and control, Making Trouble marks a signifi cant expansion within this field.

	Preface and Acknowledgments
1	Materials for Making Trouble	3
2	The Elders Were Our Textbooks: The Importance of Traditional Stories in Social Control	25
3	The Historical Roots of Tabloid TV Crime	47
4	Dominant Ideology and Drugs in the Media	73
5	Predators: The Social Construction of "Stranger-Danger" in Washington State as a Form of Patriarchal Ideology	91
6	Media Misogyny: Demonizing "Violent" Girls and Women	115
7	"The War Against Women": Media Representations of Men's Violence Against Women in Australia	141
8	Detecting Masculinity	157
9	Wild Life: Constructions and Representations of Yardies	179
10	Punky in the Middle: Cultural Constructions of the 1996 Montreal Summer Uprisings (A Comedy in Four Acts)	203
11	Freight Train Graffiti: Subculture, Media, Dislocation	231
12	Reflections: The Visual as a Mode of Social Control	255
13	Police Homicide Files as Situated Media Substrates: An Exploratory Essay	277
14	Jihad as Terrorism: The Western Media and the Defamation of the Qu'ran	303
15	Fighting Terrorism As If Women Mattered: Anti-Abortion Violence as Unconstructed Terrorism	319
16	Taking the Trouble: Concluding Remarks and Future Directions	349
	Biographical Sketches of the Contributors	365
	Index	369