Fashion crimes : Dressing for deviance
- Submitting institution
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University of Southampton
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 55610179
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic
- ISBN
- 9781780766980
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- July
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- ‘Fashion Crimes’ reconsiders the communicative potential of dress by examining how and why particular types of clothing have been socially and culturally demonised. The book was conceived and edited by Turney and substantially extends her previous research around fashion, anti-social behaviour and hate crime. It comprises of 14 chapters, of which five chapters are authored solely by Turney, so representing a significant body of work. As a collection, the book examines dress as deviant and frightening, as embodying objects that reveal social perceptions, making fear and prejudice tangible; it outlines how fashions necessitate an understanding of crime and criminal behaviour. In doing so, it is the first book to analyse the relationship between clothing and deviancy, fostering a new field of enquiry that considers representation, perception and behaviour within an overarching understanding of the socially dressed and undressed body, and of crime (or the perception of crime) as an embodied practice. Editorially, it brings together inter-disciplinary contributions from international fashion scholars, each selected to map the scope of the field, covering and transcending geographic, cultural, racial, and gender borders; each acknowledging social expectations and the obscuring of norms to reveal the clothing of prejudice. The book provides a detailed picture of fashion and crime as demonstrated by wearers and media reportage. Its originality and rigor come through the combined analysis of news text and dress studies, as juxtaposed against contemporary experiences of anxiety, alongside neo-liberal drives towards binaries and judgement. Drawing on examples of the hoodie, tracksuit, underwear and contraband (such as jeans smuggled into Soviet-bloc countries), Turney’s own specific contributions consider (1) white, male, working class culture through dress; (2) clothing and/as violence; (3) dress and behaviour; and (4) the semiotics of dress as an indicator of identity and as a site of anxiety and 'otherness' beyond sub-culture.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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