Criminal identities and consumer culture [electronic resource] : crime, exclusion and the new culture of narcissism / Steve Hall, Simon Winlow and Craig Ancrum.

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Hall, Steve, 1955-

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Publication details: Cullompton [England] ; Portland, Or. : Willan, 2008.Description: xiv, 248 pISBN:

9781843925866

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1. Introduction : the return to motivation -- 2. Life on the precipice : economic change and acute marginalisation -- 3. Consumption and identification : some insights into desires and motivations -- 4. Criminal biographies : two case studies -- 5. Consumerism and the counterculture -- 6. Critical reflections on the intellectual roots of post-war criminological theory -- 7. Myths of exclusion and resistance : a critique of some current thinking on crime and culture -- 8. Consumerism, narcissism and the reorientation of the Western super-ego -- 9. Conclusion : consumerism, crime and the pseudo-pacification process.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-235) and indexes.

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