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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.
Publisher : Policy Press; First Edition (March 14, 2023)
Language : English
Paperback : 424 pages
ISBN-10 : 1447362195
ISBN-13 : 978-1447362197
Item Weight : 1.03 pounds
Dimensions : 5.5 x 1.25 x 8.5 inches