Kenneth D Tunnell
Biographic Data
| ID | 212515 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kenneth D Tunnell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kenneth D |
| FAMILY NAME | Tunnell |
| SIGNATURE | TUNNELL K D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Eastern Kentucky University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Critical Criminology in the Life and Work of Eugene Victor Debs
Under the Pixelated Jolly Roger
Digital piracy—a type of copyright infringement—is a global phenomenon that allegedly contains grave economic consequences for intellectual property industries. Its pervasiveness has produced a global piracy subculture. This article describes our study of digital pirates who actively participate in an on-line discussion board dedicated to copyright infringement. It explores their motivations, techniques of neutralization, and contradictions withi…
Reflections on Visual Field Research
This article describes ongoing visual field research by focusing on its self-reflective and auto-ethnographic components. Photographs and field notes are presented and personal encounters from the field are described. Recognizing the symbiotic order of the personal and political, the author details confrontations and emotions from ongoing efforts at recording visually
Singing across the scars of wrong
The life and music of Johnny Cash are explored in this article as we detail his commitment to social justice. Situating his politics and biography within a cultural criminology orientation, we show that Cash’s lived politics and edgy music reflect his concerns with the working class, the dispossessed, the rebellious, the American Indian, and above all, the convict. A pusher of social causes, Cash advocated for prison reform through decades of soc…
Crime, Political
Political crime is an illegal offense against the state with the intention of affecting its political or economic policies, or an illegal domestic or international offense by the state and its agents. Political crime is conceptualized as individual, occupational, and organizational. Individual political crimes benefit individuals. Occupational crimes, occurring within the context of agents’ legitimate occupations, also benefit individuals. Organi…
Thinking Critically About Rural Gender Relations
Socially disorganized rural communities
The OxyContin Epidemic and Crime Panic in Rural Kentucky
During the late 1990s in the United States, rural Kentucky (and rural pockets of nearby states) witnessed the emergence of a new pharmaceutical drug of abuse. The powerful oxycodone OxyContin, first manufactured in 1996 and designed for time-release pain relief, found a ready population in rural hamlets and mountain communities. Intended for patients in pain associated with terminal disease, it became a drug of abuse as it was overprescribed and …
Living off Crime
Chapter 1 Criminals and Theft Chapter 2 Social Class and Theft Chapter 3 Culture and Theft Chapter 4 Consciousness and Theft Chapter 5 Victms and Victimization Chapter 6 Explanations of and Strategies for Persistent Theft
The social world of semiprofessional bluegrass musicians∗
(1998). The social world of semiprofessional bluegrass musicians. Popular Music and Society: Vol. 22, No. 4, pp. 55-77
Applying a subculture of violence thesis to an ongoing criminal lifestyle
This article describes our case study of a random violent abduction and murder in a rural part of southeastern Kentucky located in the Appalachian mountains. The offender, who was raised in this rural and isolated part of Kentucky, had a long history of violence and had been socialized into what we identify as a subculture of violence that is still found today in homogeneous and isolated pockets of some Appalachian regions (among other areas). In…
Political crime and pedagogy
Political crime, as a category, is widely recognized as one of the oldest types of crime in human history and one that has affected numerous societies. However, from content analysis research, we find that political crime typically is absent from introductory criminology and criminal justice texts. This paper describes the content analysis research and the quantitative and qualitative coverage given to political crime in contemporary introductory…
Inside the drug trade
Choosing Crime
Film at eleven
Recent increases in the number of crime‐related commodities (e.g., burglar alarms, security systems, private security forces, and crime‐related television news programs) are critically examined in relation to mildly fluctuating national crime rates. Increasing sales of crime‐related and target‐hardening products during the time when crime oscillated only slightly are explained as capitalism's ability to create commodities from both social problem…
Blood marks the spot where poor Ellen was found
(1991). Blood marks the spot where poor Ellen was found: Violent crime in bluegrass music. Popular Music and Society: Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 95-115
The Containment of Organized Crime
Thinking Critically About Rural Gender Relations
Under the Pixelated Jolly Roger
Digital piracy—a type of copyright infringement—is a global phenomenon that allegedly contains grave economic consequences for intellectual property industries. Its pervasiveness has produced a global piracy subculture. This article describes our study of digital pirates who actively participate in an on-line discussion board dedicated to copyright infringement. It explores their motivations, techniques of neutralization, and contradictions withi…
Socially disorganized rural communities
Singing across the scars of wrong
The life and music of Johnny Cash are explored in this article as we detail his commitment to social justice. Situating his politics and biography within a cultural criminology orientation, we show that Cash’s lived politics and edgy music reflect his concerns with the working class, the dispossessed, the rebellious, the American Indian, and above all, the convict. A pusher of social causes, Cash advocated for prison reform through decades of soc…
The social world of semiprofessional bluegrass musicians∗
(1998). The social world of semiprofessional bluegrass musicians. Popular Music and Society: Vol. 22, No. 4, pp. 55-77
Inside the drug trade
The OxyContin Epidemic and Crime Panic in Rural Kentucky
During the late 1990s in the United States, rural Kentucky (and rural pockets of nearby states) witnessed the emergence of a new pharmaceutical drug of abuse. The powerful oxycodone OxyContin, first manufactured in 1996 and designed for time-release pain relief, found a ready population in rural hamlets and mountain communities. Intended for patients in pain associated with terminal disease, it became a drug of abuse as it was overprescribed and …
Blood marks the spot where poor Ellen was found
(1991). Blood marks the spot where poor Ellen was found: Violent crime in bluegrass music. Popular Music and Society: Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 95-115
Reflections on Visual Field Research
This article describes ongoing visual field research by focusing on its self-reflective and auto-ethnographic components. Photographs and field notes are presented and personal encounters from the field are described. Recognizing the symbiotic order of the personal and political, the author details confrontations and emotions from ongoing efforts at recording visually
Applying a subculture of violence thesis to an ongoing criminal lifestyle
This article describes our case study of a random violent abduction and murder in a rural part of southeastern Kentucky located in the Appalachian mountains. The offender, who was raised in this rural and isolated part of Kentucky, had a long history of violence and had been socialized into what we identify as a subculture of violence that is still found today in homogeneous and isolated pockets of some Appalachian regions (among other areas). In…
Film at eleven
Recent increases in the number of crime‐related commodities (e.g., burglar alarms, security systems, private security forces, and crime‐related television news programs) are critically examined in relation to mildly fluctuating national crime rates. Increasing sales of crime‐related and target‐hardening products during the time when crime oscillated only slightly are explained as capitalism's ability to create commodities from both social problem…
The Containment of Organized Crime
Blood marks the spot where poor Ellen was found
(1991). Blood marks the spot where poor Ellen was found: Violent crime in bluegrass music. Popular Music and Society: Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 95-115
Film at eleven
Recent increases in the number of crime‐related commodities (e.g., burglar alarms, security systems, private security forces, and crime‐related television news programs) are critically examined in relation to mildly fluctuating national crime rates. Increasing sales of crime‐related and target‐hardening products during the time when crime oscillated only slightly are explained as capitalism's ability to create commodities from both social problem…
Political crime and pedagogy
Political crime, as a category, is widely recognized as one of the oldest types of crime in human history and one that has affected numerous societies. However, from content analysis research, we find that political crime typically is absent from introductory criminology and criminal justice texts. This paper describes the content analysis research and the quantitative and qualitative coverage given to political crime in contemporary introductory…
Inside the drug trade
Choosing Crime
Applying a subculture of violence thesis to an ongoing criminal lifestyle
This article describes our case study of a random violent abduction and murder in a rural part of southeastern Kentucky located in the Appalachian mountains. The offender, who was raised in this rural and isolated part of Kentucky, had a long history of violence and had been socialized into what we identify as a subculture of violence that is still found today in homogeneous and isolated pockets of some Appalachian regions (among other areas). In…
The social world of semiprofessional bluegrass musicians∗
(1998). The social world of semiprofessional bluegrass musicians. Popular Music and Society: Vol. 22, No. 4, pp. 55-77
Living off Crime
Chapter 1 Criminals and Theft Chapter 2 Social Class and Theft Chapter 3 Culture and Theft Chapter 4 Consciousness and Theft Chapter 5 Victms and Victimization Chapter 6 Explanations of and Strategies for Persistent Theft
The OxyContin Epidemic and Crime Panic in Rural Kentucky
During the late 1990s in the United States, rural Kentucky (and rural pockets of nearby states) witnessed the emergence of a new pharmaceutical drug of abuse. The powerful oxycodone OxyContin, first manufactured in 1996 and designed for time-release pain relief, found a ready population in rural hamlets and mountain communities. Intended for patients in pain associated with terminal disease, it became a drug of abuse as it was overprescribed and …
Socially disorganized rural communities
Crime, Political
Political crime is an illegal offense against the state with the intention of affecting its political or economic policies, or an illegal domestic or international offense by the state and its agents. Political crime is conceptualized as individual, occupational, and organizational. Individual political crimes benefit individuals. Occupational crimes, occurring within the context of agents’ legitimate occupations, also benefit individuals. Organi…
Thinking Critically About Rural Gender Relations
Singing across the scars of wrong
The life and music of Johnny Cash are explored in this article as we detail his commitment to social justice. Situating his politics and biography within a cultural criminology orientation, we show that Cash’s lived politics and edgy music reflect his concerns with the working class, the dispossessed, the rebellious, the American Indian, and above all, the convict. A pusher of social causes, Cash advocated for prison reform through decades of soc…
Reflections on Visual Field Research
This article describes ongoing visual field research by focusing on its self-reflective and auto-ethnographic components. Photographs and field notes are presented and personal encounters from the field are described. Recognizing the symbiotic order of the personal and political, the author details confrontations and emotions from ongoing efforts at recording visually
Under the Pixelated Jolly Roger
Digital piracy—a type of copyright infringement—is a global phenomenon that allegedly contains grave economic consequences for intellectual property industries. Its pervasiveness has produced a global piracy subculture. This article describes our study of digital pirates who actively participate in an on-line discussion board dedicated to copyright infringement. It explores their motivations, techniques of neutralization, and contradictions withi…
Critical Criminology in the Life and Work of Eugene Victor Debs
Sociology (15 works) · Criminology (14 works) · Political science (11 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (6 works) · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Art (3 works)