Keith Hayward

Cultural Criminology is a theoretical, methodological, and interventionist approach to the study of crime and deviance that places criminality and its control in the context of culture; that is, it views crime and the agencies and institutions of crime control as cultural products—as creative constructs. Meer

City Limits contributes to a growing body of work under the umbrella of 'cultural criminology', which attempts to bring an appreciation of cultural change to an understanding of crime in late modernity (Hayward and Young 2004). Meer

From The Inside is a thorough revised and expanded re-working of Hayward's previous two books. It is effectively an oral history using interviews conducted over a fifteen-year period with just about every musician and key figure that worked with Elton John up to 1979 and how they played an unwitting part in his rise to fame. Meer