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Celebrity Culture and Crime: The Joy of Transgression

Posted on 20 January 2010

Congratulations to Dr Ruth Penfold-Mounce who has just had had her first book published by Palgrave Macmillan.

Celebrity Culture and Crime: The Joy of Transgression

Celebrity Culture and Crime: The Joy of Transgression

This book engages with the concept of celebrity and its relationship with crime through criminals who become celebrities (criminal celebrities) and celebrities who become criminals (rogue celebrities). Drawing on a range of case studies, Foucault's theory of governmentality is used to examine the influence of celebrated criminals as a controlling force in contemporary society, examining high profile criminals and celebrities.