Video Games, Crime, and Control
Getting Played
Series: Routledge Studies in Crime, Culture and Media;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 9 September 2024
- ISBN 9781032388090
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages204 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 453 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 1 Tables, black & white 644
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Short description:
Discussing the state of play in contemporary popular culture, specifically the role of crime and crime control in the video game medium, this book discusses the criminological importance of video games.
MoreLong description:
Discussing the state of play in contemporary popular culture, specifically the role of crime and crime control in the video game medium, this book discusses the criminological importance of video games.
Pulling together an international group of scholars from Brazil, Canada, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States, this edited volume analyzes a wide range of noteworthy video games, including Bioshock, Death Stranding, Diablo 2, Beat Cop, The Last of Us, Disco Elysium, Red Dead Redemption, P.T., Spider-Man, Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, and Grand Theft Auto. The book thus seeks to advance dialog on video games as important cultural artifacts containing significant insights regarding dominant perceptions, interests, anxieties, contradictions, and other matters of criminological interest.
Covering policing, vigilantism, different forms of violence, genocide, mental illness, and criminological theory, Video Games, Crime, and Control will be of great interest to students and scholars of Criminology, Media Studies, and Sociology, specifically those focusing on Game Studies and Cultural Criminology.
"This incredible book is the comprehensive criminology of video games! It?s a deep dive into what they teach about crime, violence, consequences, and games? ability to reify harms and solutions. Culture plays with rule breaking ? use this book to understand the place and value of video games in understanding crime." - Jack Denham, Associate Dean: Social Sciences, York St. John University
"Extends the criminological gaze towards an immensely popular ? yet strangely neglected ? area of popular culture. The result is a series of fascinating and illuminating explorations of how video games reflect ? and perhaps shape or contest ? our common conceptions of crime, justice, transgression and pleasure. A fabulous contribution to popular criminology!" - Majid Yar, Professor Emeritus of Criminology, Lancaster University
MoreTable of Contents:
- Introduction
- Kevin F. Steinmetz & Jonathan A. Grubb
- Chains in Bioshock: The Illusion of Freedom and Free Will
- Melissa A. Petkovsek
- The Apprehensive Violence of Death Stranding: Meditations on Ropes and Sticks
- Kevin F. Steinmetz
- ?Are You Sure the Only You is You??: Domestic Violence and Critiquing the Other in the Spectral Remains of P.T.
- Sara Skott & Karl-Fredrik Scott Bengtson
- Demonology, Dark Fantasy, and the Devil: Representations of Early Criminological Theory and Justice in Diablo 2.
- Chad Posick
- ?We?re Thieves in a World that Don?t Want Us No More?: The Red Dead Redemption Series as a Case Study of the Philosophies of Punishment
- Shon M. Reed, Logan P. Kennedy, & Breanna Boppre
- Making Light of Darkness: Crime and Justice in LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
- Colin Atkinson
- Fighting Fire with Fire: Disco Elysium and procedural (In)Justice
- Edward L. W. Green
- To Serve and Protect from Behind the Mask: Miles Morales in Marvel?s Spider-Man and Marvel?s Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Policing, Justice, and Representation
- Christina Fawcett & Steven Kohm
- Cynicism in Police Simulation: A Case Study of Beat Cop
- James Popham, Andrea Corradi, Michael Ouellet, Sarthak Pal, Chris McDiarmid, Jocelyn Booton, & Michelle Goodridge
