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Cultural Criminology and the Carnival of Crime attempts to make sense of the current increase in violence, cruelty, hate and humiliation, which has come to permeate daily life. The text argues that an overly organised economic world has provoked a widespread desire for extreme, oppositional forms of popular and personal pleasure. This desire has resulted in a cathartic 'second life' of illicit pleasures often deemed criminal by those in power. Amongst the exciting issues Mike Presdee addresses are:* joyriding* street crime* antisocial behaviour in private via the inter

Crime --- Criminology. --- Deviant behavior. --- Pleasure --- Subculture. --- Sociological aspects. --- Social aspects. --- Criminology --- Deviant behavior --- Subculture --- Subcultures --- Deviancy --- Social deviance --- Criminal sociology --- Sociology of crime --- Sociological aspects --- Social aspects --- Study and teaching --- Culture --- Ethnopsychology --- Social groups --- Counterculture --- Emotions --- Ethics --- Senses and sensation --- Utilitarianism --- Happiness --- Hedonism --- Human behavior --- Conformity --- Social adjustment --- Social sciences --- Criminals --- Sociology --- Crime - Sociological aspects --- Pleasure - Social aspects --- Criminology, Penology & Juvenile Delinquency --- Social Welfare & Social Work --- Social Sciences