Criminal Identities and Consumer Culture : Crime, Exclusion and the New Culture of Narcissm (Hardcover)

Preface  1. Introduction: the return to motivation  2. Life on the precipice: economic change and acute marginalisation  3. Consumption and identification: some insights into desires and motivations  4. Criminal biographies: two case studies  5. Consumerism and the counterculture  6. Critical reflections on the intellectual roots on port-war criminological theory  7. Myths of exclusion and resistance: a critique of some current thinking on crime and culture  8. Consumerism, narcissism and the reorientation of the Western super-ego  9. Conclusion: consumerism, crime and pseudo-pacification process