Transgressive Imaginations: Crime, Deviance and Culture

by Maggie O'Neill, Lizzie Seal

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'.

196 pages, Hardcover

First published March 2, 2012