Thomas Raymen

TL;DR: In this paper, an understanding of deviant leisure is proposed for criminology, and the authors explore the potential for harm that lies beneath the surface of even the most embedded and culturally accepted forms of leisure.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that attempts to design out crime create environments which are not only doomed to fail in their primary objective, but actively create environments that perpetuate and exacerbate the decline in symbolic efficiency and the narcissistic, competitive-individualist and asocial subjectivities which, as recent work from left-wing criminology consistently reveals, have the capacity to significantly contribute to forms of harm, crime and deviance.

TL;DR: While once subject to wide-ranging state control, gambling has successfully culturally embedded itself within the normalised and legitimised forms of leisure such as the night-time economy, sports....

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the concept of deviant leisure, using the disorder of Black Friday to pose important questions about how the underpinning social and cultural values of neoliberal consumer capitalism pervades relatively mundane leisure activities, cultivating harmful subjectivities.

TL;DR: The authors argue that the 2014 adoption of the US shopping tradition of Black Friday sales to stores and supermarkets in the United Kingdom and beyond represents an important point of enquiry for the social sciences and claim that the importation of the consumer event along with the disorder and episodes of violence that accompany it are indicative of the triumph of liberal capitalist consumer ideology while reflecting an embedded and cultivated form of insecurity and anxiety concomitant with the barbaric individualism, social envy and symbolic competition of consumer culture.