Criminal Identities and Consumer Culture:

This book offers the first in-depth investigation into the relationship between today's criminal identities and consumer culture. Using unique data taken from criminals locked in areas of permanent recession, the books aims to uncover feelings and atttitudes towards a variety of criminal activities, investigating the incorporation of hearts and minds into consumer culture's surrogate social world and highlighting the relationship between the lived identities of active criminals and the socio-economic climate of instability and anxiety that permeates post-industrial Britain.This book will be of interest to undergraduates, postgraduates, researchers and lecturers in all fields within the social sciences, but especially criminology, sociology, social policy, politics and anthropology.

Steve Hall is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Northumbria University Simon Winlow is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of York Craig Ancrum is Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Teesside

Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xiii
Introduction: the return to motivation	p. 1
Life on the precipice: economic change and acute marginalisation	p. 21
Consumption and identification: some insights into desires and motivations	p. 47
Criminal biographies: two case studies	p. 65
Consumerism and the counterculture	p. 89
Critical reflections on the intellectual roots of post-war criminological theory	p. 116
Myths of exclusion and resistance: a critique of some current thinking on crime and culture	p. 142
Consumerism, narcissism and the reorientation of the Western super-ego	p. 166
Conclusion: consumerism, crime and the pseudo-pacification process	p. 191
Glossary of terms	p. 219
References	p. 223
Name index	p. 237
Subject index	p. 241
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Criminal Identities and Consumer Culture: Crime, Exclusion and the New Culture of Narcissm

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