• DOI:10.1177/1362480604044608
• Corpus ID: 144923174

Cultural Criminology:

@article{Hayward2004CulturalC,
  title={Cultural Criminology:},
  author={Keith J. Hayward and Jock S. Young},
  journal={Theoretical Criminology},
  year={2004},
  volume={8},
  pages={259 - 273}
}

• K. Hayward, Jock S. Young
• Published 1 August 2004
• Art
• Theoretical Criminology

Let us start with a question: what is this phenomenon called ‘cultural
criminology’? Above all else, it is the placing of crime and its control in the
context of culture; that is, viewing both crime and the agencies of control
as cultural products—as creative constructs. As such, they must be read in
terms of the meanings they carry. Furthermore, cultural criminology seeks
to highlight the interaction between these two elements: the relationship
and the interaction between constructions upwards and constructions
downwards. Its focus is always upon the continuous generation of meaning
around interaction; rules created, rules broken, a constant interplay of
moral entrepreneurship, moral innovation and transgression.