Framing Crime: Cultural Criminology and the Image

In a world in which media images of crime and deviance proliferate, where every facet of offending is reflected in a 'vast hall of mirrors', Framing Crime: Cultural Criminology and the Image makes sense of the increasingly blurred line between the real and the virtual.Images of crime and crime control have become almost as 'real' as crime and criminal justice itself. The meaning of both crime and crime control now resides, not solely in the essential ' and essentially false ' factuality of crime rates or arrest records, but also in the contested processes of symbolic display, cultural interpretation, and representational negotiation.It is essential, then, that criminologists are closely attuned to the various ways in which crime is imagined, constructed and framed within modern society.Framing Crime responds to this demand with a collection of papers aimed at helping the reader to understand the ways in which the contemporary 'story of crime' is constructed and promulgated through the image. It also provides the relevant analytical and research tools to unearth the hidden social and ideological concerns that frequently underpin images of crime, violence and transgression.Framing Crime will be of interest to students and academics in the fields of criminology, crime and the media, and sociology.

1. Opening the Lens: Framing Crime Keith Hayward and Mike Presdee 2. The Punitive Photograph: Cultural Criminology and the Force of the Image Phil Carney 3. The Decisive Moment: Cultural Criminology and Documentary Photography Cècile Van de Voorde and Jeff Ferrell 4. Staging an Execution: The Media at McVeigh: Cultural Criminology and Documentary Filmmaking Bruce Hoffman and Michelle Brown 5. Shooting Reality: Visual Ethnographic Techniques in Drug-using Locations Daniel Briggs 6. The Seductions of Crime Movies: Cultural Criminology and Hollywood Film Majid Yar 7. Underwriting the 'War on Terror': Fiction, Film, and Framing Alexandria Campbell 8. A Reflected Gaze of Humanity: Cultural Criminology and Images of Genocide Wayne Morrison 9. Aboriginal Art as a Critique of Colonial Law and Practice: Artwork, Cultural Criminology and the Law Chris Cuneen 10. Virtual Combats: Othering, Fun and Violence among Argentinean and Dutch Football Supporters on the Internet Damiàn Zaitch and Tom de Leeuw 11. Sticking it to the Advertising Man: A Cultural Criminology of Transgressive TV Commercials Stephen L. Muzzati 12. Concluision: Futures of Crime and the Image Keith Hayward and Mike Presdee