Routledge International Handbook of Visual Criminology

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-58121-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 620 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 1091 g

Reihe: Routledge International Handbooks

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.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brown, Michelle

Carrabine, Eamonn

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.