Intersections in Narrative and Visual Criminology: The Stories We Tell

Session Submission Type: Regular Session

Abstract/Description

In this session, panelists explore the varied ways in which narratives, stories, and their visual representations intersect around varied criminological concerns. They do so with an eye for the use of narratives to criminalize and reproduce state power but also to contest and refuse the terms we are given. From legal and state actors to the incarcerated and those who live with violence up close, these accounts of narrative and visual criminologies offer ways for us to better conceptualize and alter/defy the key constructs of criminology and criminal justice in order to elucidate and intervene in structures of harm & violence.

Sub Unit

• Area X. Critical Criminology / 73. Narrative and Visual Criminologies

Individual Presentations

• Avenues and Possibilities of Celluloid Justice: Critical Variations of Crime Film - Madison R. Ross, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

• Carceral Behavioral Therapy: The Criminalization of Addiction in Prison Recovery Treatment - Kevin Revier, SUNY Cortland

• The Fearless, Daring, Mischievous Lion: Analyzing the Depiction of the Police Officer in Post-2010s Bollywood Films - Sukanya Bhattacharya, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

• What else can we talk about? (Un-)Gendered constructions of biographical incarceration stories - Katharina Leimbach, Bielefeld University; Sandra Bucerius, University of Alberta

Chair

• Madison R. Ross, University of Tennessee, Knoxville