Critical Criminology and Literary Criticism
Rafe McGregor
Abstract
There is increasing pressure on the humanities to justify their value and on criminology to undertake interdisciplinary research. In this book, the author establishes a new interdisciplinary methodology, ‘criminological criticism’, harnessing the synergy between literary studies and critical criminology to produce genuine interventions in social reality. The author practices criminological criticism on George Miller' Mad Max: Fury Road, Prime Video's Carnival Row, and J.K. Rowling's The Cuckoo's Calling, demonstrating how these popular allegories provide insights into the harms of sexism, raci ... More
Keywords: criminology, social reality, interventions, criminological criticism, sexism, racism, class prejudice
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2021 | Print ISBN-13: 9781529219678 |
| Published to Policy Press Scholarship Online: May 2022 | DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781529219678.001.0001 |
