Crime, Deviance and Popular Culture

Dimitris Akrivos is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the School of Law, Criminal Justice and Computing of Canterbury Christ Church University, UK.Alexandros K. Antoniou is Lecturer in Media Law at the School of Law, University of Essex, UK.

• Introduction; Dimitris Akrivos & Alexandros K Antoniou. - ​Section One: The 21st Century Fictional Detective. - Chapter 1: Deviant Detectives in the Scandinavian Welfare State: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Bridge; Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen. - Chapter 2: The Representation of Crime and Criminals in the TV Series Sherlock and Elementary: A Corpus Study; Archontoula Menti. - Chapter 3: Person of Interest, Or Crime and Surveillance on Post-9/11 Network TV;Anna Krawczyk-Łaskarzewska. - Section Two: Negotiating Gender Expectations and Sexual Mores through Popular Culture. - Chapter 4:  A Televised Social Problem Construction? Pushing Back Against the Invisibility of the Male Rape Victim in American Crime; Dimitris Akrivos. Chapter 5. The 'Cool Girl' Strikes Back? A Socio-Legal Analysis of Gone Girl; Amanda Spalding. - Chapter 6. Neoliberal Enticements, Neoliberal Dangers: An Ethnographic Content Analysis of Everyday Sexuality in Fresh Meat, Greek and Sweet Vicious; Demetris Hadjigeorgiou. - Section Three: True Crime and the Quest for Justice. - Chapter 7: Wrongful Conviction, Pop Culture, and Achieving Justice in the Digital Age; Greg Stratton. - Chapter 8: Aftermath: The True Crime Memoir Comes of Age; Jean Murley. -  Section Four: Mainstreaming Deviant Subcultures. - Chapter 9. Popular Culture, Populism and the Figure of the 'Criminal': On the Rising Popular Support of Outlaw Bikers and Anti-Establishment Resentment; Tereza Kuldova. - Chapter 10. InstaGraff - The Influence of Web 2.0, Social Media and User-Created Content upon Graffiti Culture Performed in Cyber/Space; Nicola Harding. - Section Five: Racialisation, Islamophobia and Popular Culture. - Chapter 11. Portrayals of Middle Eastern Background Communities as Criminal in Australian Popular Media; Megan McElhone. - Chapter 12. Modern Sport as a Deviant Practice? How Not to Play Sports According to the IslamicOnline Fatâwâ; Alberto Testa. - Conclusion: Popular Criminology Revisited; Dimitris Akrivos & Alexandros K. Antoniou.

“Akrivos and Antoniou’s edited volume adopts a multidisciplinary approach that offers a snapshot of the dynamic, ever-evolving landscape of popular media and representations of deviance and crime in the twenty-first century. The collection of media chosen by the book’s contributors is admirably broad.” (Ashley Pearson, Ksenia Gałuskina and Thomas Giddens, International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, Vol. 32 (2), June, 2019)