This book focuses upon the breaking of rules and taboos involved in 'doing crime', including violent crime as represented in fictive texts and ethnographic research. It includes chapters on topics of urgent contemporary interest such as asylum seekers, sex work, serial killers, school shooters, crimes of poverty and understandings of 'madness'.

"[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

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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.

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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