Significance

What is the significance of cultural criminology?

•The ‘cultural turn’ in criminology

•Allowed for shifting the focus of critical criminology towards a wide range of (everyday) phenomena

•Resistance, crime in (social) media, crime and virtual realities, crime and consumer culture, risk-taking and transgression, crime control and urban space etc.

•Allowed for understanding the complexities of crime as a cultural phenomena

•While acknowledging the interplay of agency and structure

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