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.