Cultural Criminology Power Point Presentation 2022

CULTURAL
CRIMINOLOGY
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• A theoretical, methodological
and interventionist approach
towards the crime studies
(Ferrell, J. (2014)
• Places criminality and the
control of criminality squarely in
context of culture
• Views crime and all the crime
control institutions and
agencies as creative constructs
and cultural products.
• Ways for highlighting the
effects of power towards crime
constructions are sought

• Should be including
not just only ‘crime’
and ‘criminal
justice’ but all the
phenomena diverse
and in relation to it.
• Examples:
uncriminalised
deviance of the
financial and
political elites,
public display of
emotions by the

• Can be traced back to
the mid-90s
• drawing heavily on the
principles of Chicago
School of Sociology
and the Marxist and
neo-gramscian
criminologies of the
1970s
• The theories in the
cultural criminology
can be seen as taking
into account the space