Department of Sociology
Stephen Muzzatti
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Stephen L. Muzzatti, Associate Professor OFFICE: JOR-307 |
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QUALIFICATIONS:
B.A. (York), M.A. (York), Ph.D (York, Sociology)
TEACHING INTERESTS:
Crime and Media; Popular Culture; Consumerism; Social Inequality
Professor Muzzatti strives to employ sociology’s critical and interpretive traditions to aid students in their analysis of a range of artifacts, texts, practices and actors within broader power-relations. This includes, but is not restricted to advertising and consumption practices, youth tribes, leisure pursuits and transgressive pleasure, resistance and social control. He works diligently to avoid the bifurcation of subjects/objects and invites students to embrace a critical reflexivity.
RECENT COURSES
CRM312: Representing Crime
CRM406: Seminar in Criminology (Crime and Consumerism)
SOC202: Popular Culture
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Cultural Criminology; Globalisation; Transgression; Criminalisation
Prof. Muzzatti’s primary research interest is in the area of cultural criminology, particularly the connections amongst globalisation, late modernity, consumer culture and transgressive and/or criminal behaviour (and its control). As such, his research sites are diverse and include the news media’s criminalisation of youth culture, as well as terrorism, crimes of globalisation, motorcycle culture and street racing, working-class identities, the Italian-Canadian community, advertising and the marketing of transgression and the commodification of violence. The generic theme that sustains his research is the relationship amongst crime, social inequality and culture.
RECENT AND KEY PUBLICATIONS
| 2012 | “Cultural Criminology: Burning Up Capitalism, Consumer Culture and Crime,” pp. 138-150 in DeKeseredy and Dragiewicz, eds. The Handbook of Critical Criminology. Oxford: Routledge. |
| 2012 | “Si Siamo Italiani: Ethno-cultural Identity, Class Consciousness and Anarchic Sensibilities in an Italian-Canadian Working Class Enclave,” pp. 47-67 in Richardson and Skott-Myhre, eds. Habitus of the Hood. Chicago, Intellect Press |
| 2011 | “Consumer Culture, Criminology and the Politics of Exclusion,” pp.119-131 in Maguire and Okada, eds., Critical Issues of Crime and Justice: Thought, Policy and Practice.Los Angeles:Sage. |
| 2011 | “Mass Media in the Lives of Globalised Subjects," pp.155-165 in McCauley and Hill, eds., Canadian Society: Global Perspectives. Whitby: deSitter Publications. |
| 2010 | “Drive it Like You Stole It: A Cultural Criminology of Car Commercials," pp. 138-155 in Hayward and Presdee, eds. Framing Crime: Cultural Criminology and the Image. London:Routledge. |
| 2008 | With Wynne Wright "Not in My Port: The 'Death Ship' of Sheep and Crimes of Agri-Food Globalization." Agriculture and Human Values 24(2): 133-145. |
| 2007 | With Richard Featherstone “Crosshairs on Our Backs: The Culture of Fear and the Production of the D.C. Sniper Story.” Contemporary Justice Review 10 (1): 43-66 |
| 2006 | With C. Vince Samarco, eds., Reflections from the Wrong Side of the Tracks: Class, Identity, and the Working Class Experience. New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
| 2005 | “Bits of Falling Sky and Global Pandemics: Moral Panic and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS).” Illness, Crisis and Loss 13 (2): 117-128 |
| 2004 | “Criminalising Marginality and Resistance: Marilyn Manson, Columbine and Cultural Criminology,” pp. 143-152 in Ferrell, Hayward, Morrison and Presdee, eds. Cultural Criminology Unleashed. London: Glasshouse Press. |
| 2004 | With Dawn Rothe “Enemies Everywhere: Terrorism, Moral Panic, and US Civil Society.” Critical Criminology 12 (3): 327–350 |
COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES
Professor Muzzatti is a member of Contemporary Justice Review’s editorial board (JSA) and former Executive Officer of the Division of Critical Criminology (ASC). He has served on several community advisory boards dealing with issues of poverty, the media, educational access, and crime, and was the inaugural Chair of the Parkdale Residents Association’s Peace and Security Group.
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