CrimNet Reading Group

The next CrimNet reading group will be held on Tuesday 14 November 2017, meeting at V Bar, Vanburgh College (University of York)

The Reading for discussion will be 2017 article 'Anything but boring: A cultural criminological exploration of boredom' by Kevin Steinmetz, Brian Schaefer and Edward Green.

Abstract:  There is perhaps no experience in late modernity more universal than boredom. This analysis therefore responds to Ferrell’s call to take boredom seriously in the study of crime and crime control. Our analysis of boredom draws from three separate qualitative analyses of police detectives, computer hackers, and prisoners serving life sentences to reveal boredom’s influence across the criminological spectrum. Drawing from cultural criminology, this study frames boredom as a social condition that works in a dialectic with excitement. It rests betwixt and between the nuances of everyday life and saturates the periphery of experience among the three groups studied. Boredom is thus described as an inseparable component of the dynamics of crime and crime control under late modernity.

Full Citation: Steinmetz, K.F., Schaefer, B.P and Green, E.L.W (2017) 'Anything but boring: A cultural criminological exploration of boredom'. Theoretical Criminology 21 (3) 342-360

You can download this article from Sage Journals here.

If you are interested in attending this event please contact Carol on the email address below.