Deviant Leisure, Resistance and Harm

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract

The non-work activities of human beings have rarely been far from the inquisitive gaze of the social sciences. For the most part, studies gravitate to the leisure practices of the young and marginalized. Whether scrutinizing drug use, joyriding, graffiti, sex work, skateboarding or smoking, much research in this area focuses on the activities of young people, engaging in behaviours that, if not always illegal, appear close enough to the boundary between deviance and illegality to invoke discussion around police responses, policy initiatives and key criminological terminology such as antisocial behaviour and crime prevention. Our theoretical framework draws upon advances in both cultural criminology (see Hayward, 2015) and ultra-realist criminology (Hall and Winlow, 2015). This collection of papers brings together these theoretical approaches to present a conceptual framework for deviant leisure which illustrates how individual, social, economic and environmental harms are structurally embedded within many accepted and normalized forms of leisure.

Sub Unit

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

Individual Presentations

• Where’s the Harm in Deviance? Conceptualising Harm for Deviant Leisure - Thomas Raymen, Plymouth University; Oliver Smith, Plymouth University, UK

• Gendered Violence and Vulnerability in the Night Time Economy. - Oliver Smith, Plymouth University, UK

• Feminist Pornography, Creative Resistance, and Consumer Culture - Corina Medley, Northeastern University

Discussant

• Keith Hayward, University of Copenhagen