MAGGIE O'NEILL Reader in Criminology at Durham University, UK. Her previous publications include Sex Work Now (co-edited with R. Campbell), Prostitution and Feminism, Prostitution: A Reader (co-edited with R. Matthews), Asylum, Migration and Community and Adorno, Culture and Feminism.LIZZIE SEAL Lecturer in Criminology at Durham University, UK.Her previous publications include Women, Murder and Femininity: Gender Representations of Women Who Kill. She is currently researching public responses to the death penalty in England and Wales.

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Transgressive Imaginations: Crime, Deviance and Culture Children as Victims and Villains: The School Shooter Violent Female Avengers in Popular Culture Transgressing Sex Work: Ethnography, Film and Fiction Madness and Liminality: Psychosocialand Fictive Images Serial Killers and the Ethics of Representation Outlaws, Borders and Folk Devils Crime, Poverty and Resistance on Skid Row Notes Bibliography Index

"[This book] clearly locates itself within the field of cultural criminology and makes a distinctive and fresh contribution to the field. Given the authors' trans-disciplinary approach, researchers and students of working in gender, media and film studies will also find a host of important insights here." - British Journal of Criminology

MAGGIE O'NEILL Reader in Criminology at Durham University, UK. Her previous publications include Sex Work Now (co-edited with R. Campbell), Prostitution and Feminism, Prostitution: A Reader (co-edited with R. Matthews), Asylum, Migration and Community and Adorno, Culture and Feminism.LIZZIE SEAL Lecturer in Criminology at Durham University, UK.Her previous publications include Women, Murder and Femininity: Gender Representations of Women Who Kill. She is currently researching public responses to the death penalty in England and Wales.

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Transgressive Imaginations: Crime, Deviance and Culture Children as Victims and Villains: The School Shooter Violent Female Avengers in Popular Culture Transgressing Sex Work: Ethnography, Film and Fiction Madness and Liminality: Psychosocialand Fictive Images Serial Killers and the Ethics of Representation Outlaws, Borders and Folk Devils Crime, Poverty and Resistance on Skid Row Notes Bibliography Index

"[This book] clearly locates itself within the field of cultural criminology and makes a distinctive and fresh contribution to the field. Given the authors' trans-disciplinary approach, researchers and students of working in gender, media and film studies will also find a host of important insights here." - British Journal of Criminology

MAGGIE O'NEILL Reader in Criminology at Durham University, UK. Her previous publications include Sex Work Now (co-edited with R. Campbell), Prostitution and Feminism, Prostitution: A Reader (co-edited with R. Matthews), Asylum, Migration and Community and Adorno, Culture and Feminism.LIZZIE SEAL Lecturer in Criminology at Durham University, UK.Her previous publications include Women, Murder and Femininity: Gender Representations of Women Who Kill. She is currently researching public responses to the death penalty in England and Wales.

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Transgressive Imaginations: Crime, Deviance and Culture Children as Victims and Villains: The School Shooter Violent Female Avengers in Popular Culture Transgressing Sex Work: Ethnography, Film and Fiction Madness and Liminality: Psychosocialand Fictive Images Serial Killers and the Ethics of Representation Outlaws, Borders and Folk Devils Crime, Poverty and Resistance on Skid Row Notes Bibliography Index

"[This book] clearly locates itself within the field of cultural criminology and makes a distinctive and fresh contribution to the field. Given the authors' trans-disciplinary approach, researchers and students of working in gender, media and film studies will also find a host of important insights here." - British Journal of Criminology