Doing Visual Criminology: New Empirical and Theoretical Directions

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract

Across the social sciences there has been a resurgence of interest in visual methods, which has been accompanied by a rise in scholarship on visual culture that has now established itself as an exciting and expanding intellectual field. In criminology while there is a rich tradition of research on ‘crime and the media’, specific attention to the visual, or indeed on the role and place of the image in crime, in crime control and in criminal justice, has only recently been addressed by emerging scholarship in visual criminology. The papers in this panel will address some of the latest developments in the field and open up new directions for the discipline as a whole.

Sub Unit

• Area X: Perceptions and Responses to Crime and Justice / 63: Media and the Social Construction of Crime

Individual Presentations

• White Man’s Best Friend? Police Dogs and the Visual Production of the “Color Line” - Tyler Wall, Eastern Kentucky University

• None More Black: Photography, Horror and ‘Black Ecology’ in Extractive Appalachia - Bill McClanahan, University of Essex

• In the line of duty: Grief, Police, and the Politics of Death - Justin Turner, Morehead State University

• Meth on the Mountain: A Photo-Ethnography of Women Methamphetamine Users in the Rural South - Heith Copes, University of Alabama at Birmingham; Jared Ragland, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Chair

• Eamonn Carrabine, University of Essex

Discussant

• Travis Linnemann, Eastern Kentucky University