This text argues for the usefulness of fictional realities for criminological theorizing and analysis. It illustrates that a creative and critical social scientific practice requires craft norms rather than commercial norms that threaten to completely colonize higher education.

Autorentext

JON FRAULEY is Assistant Professor of Criminology at the University of Ottawa, Canada.

Inhalt
Introductory Remarks - Films, Themes, and Premises Theory, Theorizing, and Fictional Realities The Criminological Imagination Pathology, Power, and Medicalization in K-PAX and Happiness Moral Transcendence and Symbolic Interaction in Falling Down Subculture, Control, and American History X Power Crime and the Culture of Enterprise in American Psycho and Thank You for Smoking Bio-politics and Stigma Management in GATTACA