ISBN:
9781447362210
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (425 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als 50 dark destinations
DDC:
306.4819
Keywords:
Dark tourism
;
Dark tourism-History
;
Electronic books
;
Kriminalität
;
Straftat
;
Reiseziel
;
Tourismus
;
Konsumerismus
Abstract:
From the Alcatraz East Crime Museum to Jack the Ripper guided tours, 'dark tourism' is now a multi-million-pound global industry. Highlighting 50 travel destinations across six continents, expert criminologists, psychologists and historians expose a worrying trend in contemporary consumer culture in which many of us partake.
Abstract:
Front Cover -- Half Title -- Testimonials -- 50 Dark Destinations: Crime and Contemporary Tourism -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- List of figures -- About the editors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Cocaine Bear: Fun Mall, Lexington, Kentucky, USA -- Introduction -- Crooked cops, conspiracy and the sad death of 'Cocaine Bear' -- Conclusion -- 2 Whitney Plantation: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA -- Introduction -- The commodification of plantations -- The tour -- The problematic nature of contemporary consumption -- Conclusion -- 3 National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution: Washington, DC, USA -- Introduction -- The National Portrait Gallery's Scottsboro Boys collection -- National Portrait Gallery: looking to the past, present and future? -- Conclusion -- 4 From Newgate Prison to Tyburn Tree: the Old Bailey, London, UK -- Introduction -- The 'Bloody Code': capital punishment in 18th-century England -- From Newgate Prison to Tyburn Tree: the ritual of execution -- The route to Tyburn Tree: a dark destination -- Changing attitudes -- Conclusion -- 5 Jack the Ripper tour: Whitechapel, London, UK -- Introduction -- The canonical five -- The contemporary tour -- Historical tours of zoos of human suffering -- Conclusion -- 6 The Alcatraz East Crime Museum: Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, USA -- Introduction -- No one needs a t-shirt with Ted Bundy on it: personal reflections -- A society obsessed with the torn and open wound and psyche -- Conclusion -- 7 The Museum of Death: Hollywood, Los Angeles, USA -- Introduction -- A response to murderabilia -- An exploration of ethical controversies -- Conclusion -- 8 The Royal Armouries Museum: Leeds, UK -- Introduction -- A less violent world? -- The morbid fascination -- Conclusion -- 9 The Black Dahlia tour: Los Angeles, California, USA -- Introduction.
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