Visualizing Crime, Policing and Evidence

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract

Visual criminology enables researchers to draw upon visual cultural resources in their examination of crime. Visual criminology might research crime’s causes, its investigation and its prosecution. Public understanding of crime might be generated by visual imagery; alternately voyeuristic cultural practices can be fed by images of crime. In this panel, visual epistemologies and ontologies are explored and challenged through evidentiary, televisual and crowd-sourced images of crime.

Sub Unit

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

Individual Presentations

• Solving Crime: Crowd-sourced Investigations, New Media Convergences, Old Omissions - Michelle Brown, University of Tennessee

• The Cultural Afterlife of Visual Evidence - Katherine Biber, University of Technology Sydney

• Serious Crimesploitation - Paul Kaplan, San Diego State University; Daniel LaChance, Emory University

• Bad Cops and True Detectives: The Horror of Police and the Unthinkable World - Travis Linnemann, Eastern Kentucky University

Chair

• Katherine Biber, University of Technology Sydney