Steve Hall - Crime, Harm and Consumerism

This book offers a collection of cutting-edge essays on the relationship between crime, harm, and consumer culture. Although consumer culture has been addressed across the social sciences, it has yet to be fully explored in criminology. The editors bring to this field an impressive list of authors with original ideas and fresh perspectives. The collection first introduces the reader to three sets of ideas which will be especially useful to students and researchers piecing together theoretical frameworks for their studies. New concepts such as pseudo-pacification, the materialist libertine, and the commodification of abstinence can be used as foundation stones for new explanatory criminological analyses in the twenty-first century. The collection then moves on to present case studies based on rigorous empirical work in the fields of consumption and debt, outlaw gangs, illegal drug markets, gambling, the mentality that drives investment fraudsters, and the relationship between social media and state surveillance. These case studies showcase the strength of the research skills and knowledge these scholars offer to the field of criminology. Written in a clear and direct style, this book will appeal to students and scholars in criminology, sociology, cultural studies, and social theory, and those interested in learning about the effects of consumer culture in modern society.

Steve Hall is an emeritus professor of criminology who worked at the universities of Northumbria, Durham, and Teesside, UK. Essentially a criminologist, he has also published in the fields of sociology, history, and radical philosophy. He is author of Theorizing Crime and Deviance and co-author of The Rise of the Right, Revitalizing Criminological Theory, Riots and Political Protest, Rethinking Social Exclusion, Criminal Identities and Consumer Culture, and Violent Night. He is co-editor of New Directions in Criminology.

Tereza Kuldova is a social anthropologist and senior researcher at the Work Research Institute, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway. She is the author of the monographs How Outlaws Win Friends and Influence People, Luxury Indian Fashion: A Social Critique, and editor of Fashion India: Spectacular Capitalism, as well as Urban Utopias: Excess and Expulsion in Neoliberal South Asia and Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs and Street Gangs: Scheming Legality, Resisting Criminalization. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of the open-access peer-reviewed Journal of Extreme Anthropology.

Mark Horsley is a senior lecturer in criminology at the University of Chester, UK. He is the author of The Dark Side of Prosperity, a book about the causes and consequences of mass indebtedness in the run up to and aftermath of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis. In addition to other works on credit and debt, he has also published on criminological theory and the history of crime.

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Edited by Steve Hall, Tereza Kuldova and Mark Horsley

First published 2020

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Names: Hall, Steve, 1955 editor. | Kuldova, Tereza, editor. | Horsley, Mark, editor.

Title: Crime, harm and consumerism / edited by Steve Hall, Tereza Kuldova, Mark Horsley.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019047245 | ISBN 9781138388628 (hardback) | ISBN 9780429424472 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Consumption (Economics)Case studies. | CriminologyCase studies.

Classification: LCC HB801 .C725 2020 | DDC 364.2/5dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019047245

ISBN: 978-1-138-38862-8 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-429-42447-2 (ebk)

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Steve Hall, Tereza Kuldova, and Mark Horsley

PART 1
Historical and theoretical perspectives

Steve Hall

Mark Featherstone

Justin Kotz

PART 2
Contexts and case studies

Mark Horsley and Anthony Lloyd

Tereza Kuldova

Tammy Ayres

Thomas Raymen and Oliver Smith

Kate Tudor

Leanne McRae

Tammy Ayres is an interdisciplinary scholar working in the area of drugs and drug policy at the University of Leicester, UK. Tammy has been undertaking research within the field of drugs for almost two decades, with extensive experience of investigating vulnerable populations, particularly problematic drug users, prisoners, and people with mental ill-health and trauma, both in the community and in prisons both in the UK and Guyana. Her research interests focus on the functionality of drug use, trauma, coping, and consumption.

Mark Featherstone is a senior lecturer in sociology at Keele University, UK. He is author of Tocquevilles Virus: Utopia and Dystopia in Western Social and Political Theory (Routledge, 2007),