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Title: Making Trouble: Cultural Constructions of Crime, Deviance, and Control (Social Problems and Social Issues) by Jeff Ferrell, Neil Websdale ISBN: 0-202-30617-8 Publisher: Aldine de Gruyter Pub. Date: 01 May, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $50.95

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)

Rating: 5
Summary: An excellent collection of papers
Comment: To the delight of some and the utter horror and dismay of others, the field of ural studies has leeched its way into the remotest capillaries of academic life. Even criminology, a field that, with a few notable exceptions, had been all but abandoned to the path model technicians and the neo-Liberal "risk" managers, could not, it seems, check the seepage. With this volume, we see that there are at least some folks in the discipline who think that social constructions, language, the media, and popular ure actually matter with regard to issues of crime, deviance, and control. "Cultural criminology," the editors declare, is grounded in both "the frameworks of ural studies and postmodernism" as well as being "firmly rooted in sociological perspectives"(p.5). I must admit that I was skeptical that such a rubric could bridge the deep modernist/postmodernist divide, but found that after reading the opening pages, I was sufficiently intrigued by the prospect. Shrewdly, these editors see ural criminology as not trying to "synthesize or subsume" the more contentious variants of ural studies and postmodern theory as well as the "new" (now quite old) criminology of the 1970s, modernist interactionist sociology, and critical theory into some kind of amalgam, but rather seek to "...engage them in a critical, multifaceted exploration of ure, deviance, and crime. Linking these diverse intellectual dimensions is an overarching concern with the meaning of deviance, crime, and control" (p.16 emphasis mine). I found their arguments to be persuasive and compelling and learned quite a bit from their approach. This eclectic yet thematically-engaged agenda comes together in this collection of fourteen interesting papers as well outstanding introductory and concluding essays by the editors. Making Trouble is an excellent collection of papers that manages to bring a wide range of topics and approaches under the conceptually interesting umbrella of ural criminology. Anyone interested in some of the more provocative interdisciplinary takes on crime, deviance, and control will do well to consider this volume. I highly recommend it.

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