This new title will become the core book on cultural criminology. Cultural Criminology Unleashed brings together cutting-edge research across the range of meanings of the term 'cultural' - from anthropology to art, from media analyses to theories of situated meaning. Global in scope, contributions take in the US, UK, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Japan. A landmark text on the crime-culture nexus, Cultural Criminology Unleashed will be vital reading for academics as well as undergraduate and postgraduate dtudents of criminology/sociology of deviance, penology and criminal justice, as well as cultural studies, qualitative research methods and sociology. Its editors and authors include the leading exponents of cultural criminology on both sides of the Atlantic.