Crime and Music

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract

This panel will focus on the link between crime and music in criminological research. Three main questions which will be addressed are: how organized crime supported jazz musicians in the US in the first part of the 20th century; what is the image of women (as victim and offender) in operas; and last but not least is music an useful tool for research in cultural and critical criminology.

Sub Unit

• Area III: Perspectives on Crime and Criminal Behavior / 5: Cultural, Disorganization and Anomie Perspectives

Individual Presentations

• Organized Crime in America and the History of Jazz Music, 1900-1950 - Frank Bovenkerk, University of Utrecht Willem Pompe Institute

• Crime, Culture Conflict, and Opera: Women as Victim and Offender - Barbara Ann Stolz, Georgetown University

• Cultural Criminology of Classical Music - Dina Siegel, Utrecht University

Chair

• Dina Siegel, Utrecht University