Popular Culture Crime and Social Control -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Introduction: The criminology of popular culture -- References -- Part I: Crime and Social Control in the Visual Arts -- Chapter 1. Reefer Madness and beyond -- Introduction -- Popular culture, film, and illegal drugs -- Background to Reefer Madness -- Alternative and stoner films -- Normalized marijuana use in short scenes -- Trafficking and violence -- Marijuana use and arrest rates -- Film representations and the future of drug regulation -- References -- Chapter 2. The Dark Knight: Constructing Images of Good vs. Evil in an Age of Anxiety -- Introduction -- Crime and entertainment - blurring the boundaries -- Entertainment and cultural messages -- Countering a ''new kind of evil'' -- ''Watch the world burn'': The villain as 'other' -- ''You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain'': Hero as scapegoat -- ''Trust me:'' Universal surveillance and absolute power -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Chapter 3. Superhero justice: The depiction of crime and justice in modern-age comic books and graphic novels -- Introduction -- Cultural criminology as a theoretical perspective -- Comic books, graphic novels and superheroes -- Comic books as a unit of analysis -- Present study -- Results -- Discussion and conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Chapter 4. Televised images of jail: Lessons in controlling the unruly -- Introduction -- Correctional institutions in the media -- Television documentaries and reality-based programs -- Method -- The institutions, staff, and inmates -- Jail and inside American jail -- Jail documentaries -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part II: Resistance, Crime, and Protest in Music.

Chapter 5. ''I broke the law? No, the law broke meexcl'' Palestinian hip-hop and the semiotics of occupation -- Introduction -- ''From the west bank to the west coast'': Resistance and relationality -- ''Terror is the robbery of my land'': Semiotics of crime and nature -- Problematizing Primordialism -- ''I'm not fighting for a flag, a symbol, or the name 'Palestine''': Nature and the nation -- ''To be present in his past home 'Til the End''': Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 6. Rap music's violent and misogynistic effects: Fact or fiction? -- Introduction -- Nonempirical nature of rap writings -- Theorizing the relationship between rap music and its effects -- The missing perspectives of rap music listeners -- Experimental and ethnographic studies -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7. Crime, resistance and song: Black musicianship's black criminology -- Language and resistance: They called our languages vernacular -- None but ourselves can free our mind -- Solidarity: Turn this confusion into unity unity -- Racist capitalism: Today they say we are free, only to be chained in poverty -- It's not our culture to be poor -- Criminology: Is built on ignorance -- Notes -- References -- Songs References -- Chapter 8. The different sounds of American protest: From freedom songs to punk rock -- Introduction -- Freedom songs of the civil rights movement -- Punk rock in the 1980s -- Musical protest -- References -- Discography and DVDs -- Part III: Crime and Justie in Non-fiction -- Chapter 9. Evil monsters and cunning perverts: Representing and regulating the dangerous paedophile -- Introduction -- The social construction of the paedophile: A case study of UK newspaper discourses -- Regulating the paedophile: Government legislation, law enforcement and the media -- Concluding remarks -- References.

Chapter 10. Framing the scene: presentations of forensics programming in the news -- Introduction -- Methodology -- Findings -- Conclusion -- Recommendations -- References -- Chapter 11. Beach crime in popular culture: Confining the carnivalesque in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil -- Introduction: The beach in the myth of national identity -- The setup -- The robbery (or, too much participant observation: Get me out of hereexcl) -- Crime is popular culture -- Note -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 12. Here be dragons: Lombroso, the gothic, and social control -- Introduction -- Framing lombroso -- The gothic tradition -- The gothic and lombroso -- Lombroso, the gothic, and social control -- Charting the unknown -- Notes -- References -- Index.