{"product_id":"video-games-crime-and-control-getting-played","title":"Video Games, Crime, and Control","description":"\u003cp\u003eDiscussing the state of play in contemporary popular culture, specifically the role of crime and crime control in the video game medium, this book discusses the criminological importance of video games.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePulling together an international group of scholars from Brazil, Canada, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States, this edited volume analyzes a wide range of noteworthy video games, including Bioshock, Death Stranding, Diablo 2, Beat Cop, The Last of Us, Disco Elysium, Red Dead Redemption, P.T., Spider-Man, Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, and Grand Theft Auto. The book thus seeks to advance dialog on video games as important cultural artifacts containing significant insights regarding dominant perceptions, interests, anxieties, contradictions, and other matters of criminological interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCovering policing, vigilantism, different forms of violence, genocide, mental illness, and criminological theory, \u003ci\u003eVideo Games, Crime, and Control\u003c\/i\u003e will be of great interest to students and scholars of Criminology, Media Studies, and Sociology, specifically those focusing on Game Studies and Cultural Criminology.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49738363797848,"sku":"9781032388090","price":192.2,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/video-games-crime-and-control-getting-played","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}