Making Trouble: Cultural Constraints of Crime, Deviance, and Control

In Making Trouble, leading scholars in criminology, sociology, criminal justice, women's studies, and social history explore the mediated cultural dynamics that govern image construction and understanding of a wide range of contemporary controversies (for instance, drug dealing, freight train graffi ti, anti-abortion violence, etc.). Edited within unifying central themes such as "situated media"; the evolution of policing and social control; and the gendered construction of crime, deviance, and control, Making Trouble marks a signifi cant expansion within this field.

Jeff Ferrell is Professor of Criminal Justice at Northern Arizona University Dr. Ferrell is the recipient of the 1998 Critical Criminologist of the Year Award presented by the Critical Criminology Division of the American Society of Criminology. Neil Websdale is Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at Northern Arizona University.