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Criminality and the Modern - Contingency and Agency in Twentieth-Century America (Hardcover)
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Criminality and the Modern - Contingency and Agency in Twentieth-Century America (Hardcover)
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The emergence of the social sciences, established in the mid to
late nineteenth-century, had a substantial bearing on how
researchers, academics, and eventually the general public thought
about criminal behavior. Using Modernism as a lens, Stephen Brauer,
examines how these disciplines shaped Americans' understanding of
criminality in the twentieth-century and how it provides a new way
to think about culture, social norms, and ultimately, laws. In
theory, laws act as articulations and codifications of a
community's beliefs, values, and principles. By breaking laws,
criminals help us reinforce social norms by providing the
opportunity to affirm what is believed to be right. By operating
outside the bounds of acceptable behavior, the criminal serves as a
useful figure to understand what is at stake in the culture, what
the central issues of that culture might be, and what the fears and
anxieties are. Criminality serves as a lens through which we can
read ourselves and how the criminal operates as a cultural figure
signifies the things we are negotiating in our lives and in our
communities. Brauer focuses on two main concepts, central to the
very concept of Modernism, to explore criminality: contingency, the
idea that the individual might not be in control of their own
deviance, and agency, the notion that the criminal makes a
conscious choice to use crime as a means of economic success. The
figure of the criminal is a powerful one and is key to exploring
American twentieth-century culture. This book would be of interest
to students and scholars in criminology, sociology, cultural
studies, literary studies, history, and many others.
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