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Lynes / Kelly / Treadwell 50 Dark Destinations

Crime and Contemporary Tourism
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-4473-6220-3
Verlag: Policy Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

Crime and Contemporary Tourism

E-Book, Englisch, 424 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm

ISBN: 978-1-4473-6220-3
Verlag: Policy Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)



From the Alcatraz East Crime Museum and Jack the Ripper guided tours to the Phnom Penh killing fields, ‘dark tourism’ is now a multi-million-pound global industry. Even in the most pleasant tourist destinations, underlying harms are constantly perpetuated, affecting both consumers and those who work or live around such tourist hotspots. Highlighting 50 travel destinations across six continents, expert criminologists, psychologists and historians explore the past and contemporary issues which we often disregard during our everyday leisure.

This captivating book is the ‘go-to’ guide for anyone interested in crime and deviance-related tourism. Accessible and digestible, it exposes a worrying trend in contemporary consumer culture, in which many of us partake.

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Introduction - Adam Lynes, Craig Kelly and James Treadwell

1. Cocaine Bear: Lexington, Kentucky, USA - Travis Linnemann

2. Whitney Plantation: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA - Thomas Raymen

3. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution: Washington DC, USA - Alice Storey

4. From Newgate Prison to Tyburn Tree: the Old Bailey, London, UK - Peter Joyce and Wendy Laverick

5. Jack the Ripper Tour: Whitechapel, London, UK - Kevin Hoffin

6. The Alcatraz East Crime Museum: Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, USA - Laura Hammond

7. The Museum of Death: Hollywood, Los Angeles, USA - Loukas Ntanos

8. The Royal Armouries Museum: Leeds, UK - Sarah Jones

9. The Black Dahlia tour: Los Angeles, California, USA - David Wilson

10. The Execution Dock: Wapping, East London, UK - Wendy Laverick and Peter Joyce

11. Auschwitz: Oswiecim, Poland - Tammy Ayres and Sarah Hodgkinson

12. Jeju 4:3 memorial: Jeju Island, South Korea - Robin West

13. Museum Dr. Guislain: Ghent, Belgium - Sophie Gregory

14. Karosta Prison Hotel: Liepaja, Latvia - Melindy Duffus

15. The Clink prison-based restaurant: Brixton, London, UK - Dan Rusu

16. The 9/11 memorial and museum: New York, New York, USA - John Bahadur Lamb

17. The Tuol Sleng Museum of Genocidal Crimes: Phnom Penh, Cambodia - Eamonn Carrabine

18. Choeung Ek killing field: Phnom Penh, Cambodia - Luke Telford

19. Blue lights in the Red Light District: Amsterdam, the Netherlands - Ben Colliver

20. Trophy hunting: sub-Saharan Africa - Patrick Berry and Gary R. Potter

21. 'The ugly side to the beautiful game': Qatar - Grace Gallacher

22. Burning Man festival: Black Rock Desert, Nevada, USA - Keith Hayward

23. Magaluf: Majorca - Simon Winlow

24. 'Holiday Hooters': Hong Kong - Katie Lowe

25. Scilla: Calabria, Italy - Anna Sergi

26. The Kray twins tours: London, UK - Craig Ancrum

27. Backpacking in the outback: Uluru, Northern Territory, Australia - Eveleigh Buck-Matthews and Craig Kelly

28. The hippie trail: Nepal, South Asia - Emiline Smith

29. The Museum of Confiscated Art: Brest, Belarus - Donna Yates and Hannah London

30. Steroid holidays: Sharm El Sheikh, Sinai Peninsula, Egypt - Nick Gibbs

31. The Souks: Tunis, Tunisia - Kyla Bavin and James Treadwell

32. Mezhyhirya Residence Museum: Novi Petrivtsi, Ukraine - Tereza Østbø Kuldova and Jardar Østbø

33. The great British seaside: various locations, UK - Neil Chakraborti

34. The Biggie mural: Brooklyn, New York, USA - Natasha Pope

35. The Rebus guided tour: Edinburgh, UK - Ian R. Cook and Michael Rowe

36. Volunteer tourism - 'doing it for the 'gram': Cambodia, Southeast Asia - Orlando Woods

37. The Staycation: home - Jack Denham

38. The 'suicide forest': Aokigahara, Japan - Max Hart

39. Pitcairn Island: Pitcairn Islands, Pacific Ocean - Steve Wadley

40. Favela tours: Rio De Janerio, Brazil - Duncan Frankis and Selina Patel Nascimento

41. Skid Row walking tours: Los Angeles, California, USA - Craig Kelly

42. The 2019-2020 anti-extradition protests: Hong Kong - Jane Richards

43. The Maldives: Republic of Maldives, Indian Ocean - Emiline Smith and Oliver Smith

44. Death Road: La Paz to Coroico, Bolivia - Joe Garrihy

45. Vulture brains and muthi markets: Johannesburg, South Africa - Angus Nurse

46. Dark Tourism, ecocide and alpine ski resorts: the Alps, Europe - Oliver Smith

47. Boho Zone: Middlesbrough, UK - Emma Winlow

48. One Hyde Park: London, UK - Rowland Atkinson

49. Amazon warehouse tours: Rugeley, UK or virtual tour - Adam Lynes

50. Disney World: Orlando, Florida, USA - Anthony Lloyd

Conclusion - Adam Lynes, Craig Kelly and James Treadwell


Treadwell, James
Dr James Treadwell is Professor of Criminology at Staffordshire University and has also worked at the University of Birmingham, and University of Leicester. Previously he worked for the crime reduction charity NACRO, and as a Probation Officer in the West Midlands. He undertakes ethnographic and qualitative research for crime and criminal justice related projects, including studies of the English Defence League, and the August 2011 English Riots.

Atkinson, Rowland
Rowland Atkinson is Chair in Inclusive Societies, in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Sheffield. His research crosses urban studies, sociology, geography and criminology and looks at different forms of exclusion and inequality. Among other interests his work has focused on questions of wealth and poverty in societies and the often invisible harms generated by social inequality in urban settings. Rowland lead the first study of gated communities in the UK as well as the first key study of the rich in London and continues to work to connect the lives of the affluent to social problems, he is the author of (with Sarah Blandy) Domestic Fortress. Books: Better society

Rowe, Michael
Michael Rowe is Professor of Criminology at the University of Northumbria. He has an international reputation for his research and publications in the field of policing, particularly in relation to police culture, reforms, diversity, the policing of domestic violence, on-line victimisation and offender desistance.

Raymen, Thomas
Thomas Raymen is an Associate Professor of Criminology at Northumbria University. He is a co-founder of the Deviant Leisure Research Network, and the founder and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Contemporary Crime, Harm, and Ethics. He has written or edited numerous books chapters and journal articles. Raymen is a core researcher of the LUXCORE project.

Østbø Kuldova, Tereza
Tereza Østbø Kuldova is a Research Professor at the Work Research Institute, Oslo Metropolitan University. She is a social anthropologist and the author of six books and numerous articles. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Extreme Anthropology and of the Algorithmic Governance Research Network. She currently leads the LUXCORE project: Luxury, Corruption and Global Ethics: Towards a Critical Cultural Theory of the Moral Economy of Fraud, funded by the Research Council of Norway.

Lloyd, Anthony
Anthony Lloyd is Reader in Criminology and Sociology at Teesside University.

Garrihy, Joe
Contributor, 50 Dark Destinations

Lynes, Adam
Adam Lynes is an Associate Professor in social sciences at Birmingham City University.

Nurse, Angus
Angus Nurse is Associate Professor of Environmental Justice and Director of Policing Programmes at Middlesex University London.

Telford, Luke
Luke Telford is Lecturer in Criminology at Staffordshire University.

Wilson, David
David Wilson is Professor of Criminology at Birmingham City University and the founding Director for the Centre for Applied Criminology. He is regarded as one of the country's leading experts on serial murder

Winlow, Simon
Simon Winlow is Professor of Criminology at Northumbria University.

Jones, Sarah
Sarah Jones is a Visiting Lecturer and a PhD Researcher in social sciences at Birmingham City University.

Sergi, Anna
Anna Sergi is Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Essex. She specialises in organised crime and comparative criminal justice. She has published widely including four previous books, the most recent one published by Bristol University Press.

Adam Lynes is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Birmingham City University.

Craig Kelly is Lecturer in Criminology at Birmingham City University.

James Treadwell is Professor in Criminology at Staffordshire University.



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