Video Games, Crime, and Control Getting Played

"This incredible book is the comprehensive criminology of video games! It's a deep dive into what they teach about crime, violence, consequences, and games' ability to reify harms and solutions. Culture plays with rule breaking - use this book to understand the place and value of video games in understanding crime." - Jack Denham, Associate Dean: Social Sciences, York St. John University

"Extends the criminological gaze towards an immensely popular - yet strangely neglected - area of popular culture. The result is a series of fascinating and illuminating explorations of how video games reflect - and perhaps shape or contest - our common conceptions of crime, justice, transgression and pleasure. A fabulous contribution to popular criminology!" - Majid Yar, Professor Emeritus of Criminology, Lancaster University