Overview
- Presents an interdiscipilinary exploration of crime, deviance and consumer culture around a typology of 'harm'
- Draws on case studies, original research and other forms of empirical enquiry
- Speaks to those interested in leisure, tourism, urban space, crime, deviance, identity, consumer culture and youth studies
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Crime, Media and Culture (PSCMC)
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This book brings together a collection of critical essays that challenge the existing dogma of leisure as an unmitigated social good, in order to examine the commodification and marketisation of leisure across a number of key sites. Leisure and consumer culture have become symbolic of the individual freedoms of liberal society, ostensibly presenting individuals with the opportunity to display individual creativity, cultural competence and taste. This book problematizes these assertions, and considers the range of harms that emerge in a consumer society predicated upon intense individualism and symbolic competition. Approaching the field of commodified leisure through the lens of social harm, this collection of essays pushes far beyond criminology’s traditional interest in ‘deviant’ forms of leisure, to consider the normalized social, interpersonal and environmental harms that emerge at the intersection of leisure and consumer capitalism. Capturing the current vitality and interdisciplinary scope of recent work which is underpinned by the deviant leisure perspective, this collection uses case studies, original research and other forms of empirical enquiry to scrutinise activities that range from alcohol consumption and gambling, to charity tourism; CrossFit training; and cosmetic pharmaceuticals. Drawn from researchers across the UK, US, Europe and Australia, Deviant Leisure: Criminological Perspectives on Leisure and Harm represents the first systematic attempt at a criminological consideration of the global harms of the leisure industry; firmly establishing leisure as a subject of serious criminological importance.
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Theoretical Perspectives
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Consuming Harm
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Oliver Smith is a reader in Criminology at The University of Plymouth, UK. He has published widely in the field of deviant leisure, and is author of Contemporary Adulthood and the Night Time Economy (Palgrave, 2014). His current research examines the capacity for environmental harm in the context of commodified leisure markets.
Thomas Raymen is Senior Lecturer in criminology at Northumbria University, UK. His interests span the fields of criminology, moral philosophy, leisure studies, cultural geography and urban studies. Thomas is the author of Parkour, Deviance and Leisure in the Late Capitalist City (Emerald, 2018), and his research has focused upon a criminological exploration of the concept of 'deviant leisure'. He is currently focused on developing a theory of social harm rooted in a post-liberal ethics.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Deviant Leisure
Book Subtitle: Criminological Perspectives on Leisure and Harm
Editors: Thomas Raymen, Oliver Smith
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Crime, Media and Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17736-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-17735-5Published: 08 October 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-17738-6Published: 08 October 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-17736-2Published: 28 September 2019
Series ISSN: 2946-3912
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3920
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 439
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations
Topics: Crime and Society, Critical Criminology, Criminological Theory, Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Crime and the Media, Youth Culture