Key texts

Key books and other texts within cultural criminology:

Cultural Criminology: An Invitation

Understanding Street Culture

Beads, Bodies and Trash: Public Sex, Global Labor, and the Disposability of Mardi Gras

The Apostates: When Muslims Leave Islam

Framing Crime

Framing Crime: Cultural Criminology and the Image
Administrating Victimisation

Empire of Scrounge

Cultural Criminology and the Carnival of Crime

Crimes of Style: Urban Graffiti and the Politics of Criminality

City Limits: Crime, Consumer Culture and the Urban Experience

The Vertigo of Late Modernity

Cultural Criminology

Ethnography at the Edge: Crime, Deviance, and Field Research

Making Trouble: Cultural Constructions of Crime Deviance & Control

Tearing Down the Streets: Adventures in Urban Anarchy

Cultural Criminology Unleashed

Fifty Key Thinkers in Criminology

Cultural Criminology The Library of Essays in Theoretical Criminology


Recent texts of interest to cultural criminology (PDF)

The Alternative Criminology series addresses and encourages the ongoing development of new criminological perspectives that challenge conventional understandings of crime, justice, and social control.