Narrative and Spectacle Shared Across Spaces: Constructing Danger or Unsettling Constructions

Session Submission Type: Regular Session

Abstract/Description

Narrative and visual criminologies come together in this panel as tools for grasping the signification of crime and danger, the experience of carcerality, and the resilience of criminal justice logics and practice amid decriminalization. A theme of exchange and penetration is salient across papers – the exchange of letters from and to prison, the online exchange of crime stories and images, the exchange of hard for soft criminalization, and fentanyl penetrating surfaces of the skin.

Sub Unit

• Area X. Critical Criminology / 76. Narrative and Visual Criminologies

Individual Presentations

• Fentanyl Fears: Policing and the Racial Politics of the Fentanyl Exposure Myth - Kevin Revier, SUNY Cortland

• Recreational cannabis and [re]criminalization in the 'Emerald Triangle' - Philip R. Kavanaugh, Penn State Harrisburg

• Prison Letters: Method and Practice in an Era of Repression - Austin Luzbetak, University of Minnesota

• "Seeing is Believing": Deconstructing Digital Witnessing and Shared Crime Stories - Karen G. Weiss, West Virginia University

Chair

• Karen G. Weiss, West Virginia University