50 Dark Destinations: Crime and Contemporary Tourism

Lynes, Adam and Kelly, Craig and Treadwell, James (2023) 50 Dark Destinations: Crime and Contemporary Tourism. Policy Press, Bristol. ISBN 9781447362197

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Abstract

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.

Item Type: Book
Dates:
DateEvent
14 March 2023Published
Uncontrolled Keywords: dark tourism, travel, crime, deviance, violence
Subjects: CAH15 - social sciences > CAH15-01 - sociology, social policy and anthropology > CAH15-01-01 - social sciences (non-specific)
CAH15 - social sciences > CAH15-01 - sociology, social policy and anthropology > CAH15-01-03 - social policy
Divisions: Faculty of Business, Law and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences > Criminology and Sociology
Depositing User: Adam Lynes
Date Deposited: 20 Mar 2023 14:46
Last Modified: 20 Mar 2023 14:46
URI: https://www.open-access.bcu.ac.uk/id/eprint/14262

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