Routledge
International Handbook of Visual Criminology
Michelle Brown and Eamonn Carrabine (eds.)
Oxford: Routledge, 2017, 578 pp. | 22 Color
Illus. | 131 B/W Illus.
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.
1.
Introducing Visual
Criminology, Michelle Brown and Eamonn Carrabine
Part I: Foundations
– History, Theory Methods
2.
Law, evidence and
representation, Katherine Biber
3.
Social science and
visual culture, Eamonn Carrabine
4.
«We never,
never talked about photography»: Documentary photography, visual
criminology, and method, Jeff Ferrell
5.
Crime films and
visual criminology, Nicole Rafter
6.
Key methods of
visual criminology: An overview of different approaches and their affordances, Luc
Pauwels
7.
Visions of
legitimacy: Public criminology, the image and the legitimation of the carceral
state, Jonathan Simon
8.
Carceral geography
and the spatialization of carceral studies, Dominique Moran
9.
Art and its unruly
histories: Old and new formations, Eamonn Carrabine
Part II: Images and
Crime
10. Making the criminal visible: photography and
criminality, Jonathan Finn
11. Documentary criminology: A cultural criminological
introduction, Keith Hayward
12. Going feral: Kamp Katrina as a case study of
documentary criminology, David Redmon
13. Mediated suffering, Sandra Walklate
14. Media, popular culture and the lone wolf terrorist:
The evolution of targeting, tactics and violent ideologies, Mark Hamm and
Ramón Spaaij
15. Representing the pedophile, Steven Kohm
16. Street art, graffiti and urban aesthetics, Alison
Young
17. Risky business: Visual representations in corporate
crime films, Gray Cavender and Nancy Jurik
18. Crimesploitation, Paul Kaplan and Daniel LaChance
Part III: Images
and Criminal Justice
19. In plain view: Violence and the police image. Travis
Linneman
20. The role of the visual in the restoration of social
order, Tony Kearon
21. Opening a window on probation cultures: A photographic
imagination, Anne Worrall, Nicola Carr and Gwen Robinson
22. How does the photograph punish?, Phil Carney
23. The visual retreat of the prison: Non-places for
Non-people, Yvonne Jewkes, Eleanor Slee and Dominique Moran
24. Pervasive punishment: Experiencing supervision, Wendy
Fitzgibbon, Christine Graebsch and Fergus McNeill
25. Graphic justice and criminological aesthetics: Visual
criminology on the streets of Gotham, Thomas Giddens
Part IV: Accusing
Images and Images Accused
26. Staged imagery of killing and torture: Ethical and
normative dimensions of seeing, Lieve Gies
27. Jus Des(s)erts? Crime and Punishment in the Italian
Last Judgement, Lisa Wade
28. Visualizing blackness – racializing gameness: Social
inequalities in virtual gaming communities, Jordan Mazurek and Kishonna Gray
29. Visual power and sovereignty: Indigenous art and
colonialism, Chris Cuneen
30. Asylum seekers and moving images: Walking, sensorial
encounters and visual criminology, Maggie O’Neill
31. Visual criminology and cultural memory: The
aestheticization of boat people, Jacqueline Wilson
32. Seeing and seeing-as: Building a politics of
visibility in criminology, Sarah Armstrong
33. The concerned criminologist: Refocusing the ethos of
socially committed photographic research, Cécile Van de Voorde
34. Los Angeles, urban history and neo-noir cinema, Gareth
Millington
35. Against a «humanizing» prison cinema: The
Prison in Twelve Landscapes and the politics of abolition imagery, Brett
Story
Part V: Future
Directions
36. Fascinated receptivity and the visual unconscious of
crime, Stephen Pfohl
37. The criminologist as visual scholar in a global
mediascape, Michelle Brown
38. Sunk capital, sinking prisons, stinking landfills:
Landscape, ideology, visuality and the carceral state in central Appalachia, Judah
Schept
39. Territorial coding in street art and censure: Ernest
Pignon-Ernest’s contribution to visual criminology, Ronnie Lippens
40. Representations of environmental crime and harm: A
green-cultural criminological perspective on ‘Human-Altered Landscapes’, Avi
Brisman
41. There’s no place like home: Encountering crime and
criminality in representations of the domestic, Michael Fiddler
42. Monstrous nature: A meeting of gothic, green and
cultural criminologies, Nigel South
Michelle
Brownis Associate Professor of
Sociology at the University of Tennessee, USA.
Eamonn
Carrabineis Professor of Sociology at the
University of Essex, UK.
