Concept information
Preferred term
cultural criminology
Definition
- Cultural criminology is a theoretical orientation founded on the claim that crime and crime control cannot be understood apart from the domain of culture—that is, the domain of shared symbolism, collective meaning, and mediated communication. Cultural criminologists contend that the basic issues on which criminology has traditionally focused—issues like everyday crime, individual and corporate violence, patterns of victimization, and the practice of crime control—are in fact cultural in nature. [Source: Encyclopedia of Criminological Theory; Cultural Criminology]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/cultural_criminology
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