Routledge International Handbook of Visual Criminology

Dynamically written and richly illustrated, the Routledge International Handbook of Visual Criminology offers the first foundational primer on visual criminology. Spanning a variety of media and visual modes, this volume assembles established researchers whose work is essential to understanding the role of the visual in criminology and emergent thinkers whose work is taking visual criminology in new directions.

This book is divided into five parts that each highlight a key aspect of visual criminology, exploring the diversity of methods, techniques and theoretical approaches currently shaping the field:

- Part I introduces formative positions in the developments of visual criminology and explores the different disciplines that have contributed to analysing images.

- Part II explores visual representations of crime across film, graphic art, documentary, police photography, press coverage and graffiti and urban aesthetics.

- Part III discusses the relationship of visual criminology to criminal justice institutions like policing, punishment and law.

- Part IV focuses on the distinctive ethical problems posed by the image, reflecting on the historical development, theoretical disputes and methodological issues involved.

- Part V identifies new frameworks and emergent perspectives and reflects upon the distinctive challenges and limits that can be seen in this emerging field.

This book includes a vibrant colour plate section and over a hundred black and white images, breaking down the barriers between original photography and artwork, historic paintings and illustrations and modern comics and films. This interdisciplinary book will be of interest to criminologists, sociologists, visual ethnographers, art historians and those engaged with media studies.

List of contents

Introducing Visual Criminology, Part I: Foundations - History, Theory Methods: Law, evidence and representation, Social science and visual culture, ""We never, never talked about photography"": Documentary photography, visual criminology, and method, Crime films and visual criminology, Key methods of visual criminology: An overview of different approaches and their affordances, Visions of legitimacy: Public criminology, the image and the legitimation of the carceral state, Carceral geography and the spatialization of carceral studies, Art and its unruly histories: Old and new formations, Part II: Images and Crime: Making the criminal visible: photography and criminality, Documentary criminology: A cultural criminological introduction, Going feral: Kamp Katrina as a case study of documentary criminology, Mediated suffering, Media, popular culture and the lone wolf terrorist: The evolution of targeting, tactics and violent ideologies, Representing the pedophile, Street art, graffiti and urban aesthetics, Risky business: Visual representations in corporate crime films, ../part contents

About the author

Michelle Brown is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Tennessee, USA.

Eamonn Carrabine is Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex, UK.

Summary

Spanning a variety of media, this book offers the first foundational handbook on visual criminology. Considering theory, representations of crime and justice, ethics of visual research methods and the challenges and limits of visual criminology.

Report

"This collection of original essays shows how quickly the visual landscape has become an integral part of an engaged and critical criminology. It is a breath-taking achievement and fitting testimony to the influence of the late Nicky Rafter."
Piers Beirne, Professor in the Department of Criminology, Economics and Sociology, University of Southern Maine, USA
"With its stress on emotion and affect, this book further extends the canon of cultural criminology and research in crime and media, developing a critically engaged approach to the study of visual imagery in criminology. Containing essays by established and emerging figures in the field, with topics ranging from formative ideas in visual criminology to emergent trends and new directions, the volume provides students, teachers and researchers with a wealth of textual and visual information. The book is premised on a view of crime images as inseparable from reality, and having a constitutive role in defining crime, determining its outcomes and consequences, and contributing to its legacies. Moreover, it suggests images of crime, punishment and control are infused with relations of power and resistance, meaning criminologists should take seriously the politics and ethics of visual representation, and consider how that might affect activism and interventions in criminal justice processes."
Dr Greg Martin, Associate Professor of Socio-Legal Studies, University of Sydney, Australia, Editor of The Sociological Review and Associate Editor of Crime, Media, Culture
"Brown, Carrabine and the contributing authors have produced a game-changing anthology that does more than offer incremental advances in knowledge and understanding. In situating established and emerging theoretical and methodological perspectives in a context of carefully framed ethical debate, The Routledge Handbook of Visual Criminology brings intellectual coherence to an entire subfield of

Product details

• Authors: Michelle Carrabine Brown
• Assisted by: Michelle Brown (Editor), Eamonn Carrabine (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9780367581213
• ISBN: 978-0-367-58121-3
• No. of pages: 620
• Series: Routledge International Handbooks
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology