The Undermining of Celebrated Criminality

Abstract

Celebrated criminality impacts on the public understanding of the world, on consumption, on what is read and even on what is watched on television. As governance, celebrated criminality has been influential through the development of criminals attaining celebrity status. However, the celebration of criminality altered during the late twentieth century following societal, cultural and technological developments. Consequently, there are growing numbers of individuals classifiable as criminal-celebrities within celebrity culture. This growth, combined with shifting societal attitudes to crime and deviance, has had a significant impact on the size and consistency of criminal-celebrity within celebrated criminality as governance. This chapter seeks to provide an analysis of how celebrated criminality is being undermined as governance.