Cultural Criminology

Question 1

how did Newburn define Cultural criminology? (Date?)

Answer 1

2017
- “Reveals the sensual nature of crime, the adrenaline rushes of edgework voluntary illicit risk taking and the dialect of fear and pleasure”

Question 2

What are the 4 main focuses of Cultural Criminology suggested by Ferrell? (Date?)

Answer 2

1990

• Crime as Culture
• Culture as Crime
• The media and crime control dynamics
• The social politics of crime and culture

Question 3

What are two links that Cultural criminology has with other theories suggested by Ilan? (Date?)

Answer 3

2019

Links with interactionism and labelling theory

Question 4

How did Hayward and Young view Cultural Crim? (Date?)

Answer 4

2004

- Viewing both crime and the agencies of control as cultural products - as creative constructs

Question 5

How does Ferrell describe Culture as crime? (Date?)

Answer 5

1999

- Criminalised by both the law and the media, impacts marginalised groups

Question 6

How does Ferrell describe Crime as Culture? (Date?)

Answer 6

1999
- Crime is committed as a form of resistance and to seek thrills or excitement - Increased when practices become criminalised = more thrill

Question 7

What 2 things did Hayward and Young suggest about the politics of culture and crime? (Date?)

Answer 7

2007

• Punitive responses increase the excitement of crime
• Corporations and politicians use moral panics to make gains

Question 8

What did Ferrell say about the Media constructions of Crime and Crime Control/ (Date?)

Answer 8

1995
- “In the process of constructing crime and crime control as social concerns and political controversies, the media also construct them as entertainment”

Question 9

Give an example of an act that is analysed in Cultural Criminology?

Answer 9

Graffiti

Question 10

Give 3 examples of Graffiti as crime as culture?

Answer 10

• Graffiti as a reaction to special controls
• Subcultural status - tagging large areas, “tagging the heavens”
• The reclaiming of public space

Question 11

What are 2 critiques made by Newburn about Cultural Criminology? (Date?)

Answer 11

• Explanations of “culture” in research are inconsistent

- Unclear to what is meant by culture.

Question 12

why did Cultural criminology emerge?

Answer 12

Emerged as a response to a lack of cultural analysis in criminology.