This book delves into humanity’s compulsive need to valorize criminals. The criminal hero is a seductive figure, and audiences get a rather scopophilic pleasu
Contains contributions on the theme of popular culture, crime, and social control. This title includes chapters that tease out various criminologically relevant
Killer Fandom is the first long-form treatment of serial killer fandom. Fan studies have mostly ignored this most moralized form of fandom, as a stigmatized Bad
This timely collection provides a historical overview of violence in American popular culture from the Puritan era to the present and across a range of media. F