Publishing with Purpose
Visual Criminology
By Bill McClanahan
ISBN
978-1529207446Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University PressClick to order from North America, Canada and South America
ISBN
978-1529207477Dimensions
Imprint
Bristol University PressClick to order from North America, Canada and South America
Visual Criminology
From fine art to popular digital culture, criminologists are increasingly engaged in the processes of the visual.
In this pioneering work, Bill McClanahan provides a concise and lively overview of the origins and contemporary role of visual criminology. Detailing and employing the most prominent approaches at work in visual criminology, this book explores the visual perspective in relation to prisons, police, the environment, and drugs, while noting the complex social and ethical implications embedded in visual research.
This original book broadens the horizons of criminological engagement and reveals how visual criminology offers new and critical ways to understand and theorize crime and harm.
"In this concise, innovative, accessible, and provocative book Bill McClanahan opens up a new vision for criminological inquiry. Original, bold and ambitious – this is an important and timely book that is a pleasure to read." Eamonn Carrabine, University of Essex
"McClanahan argues for the critical place of the image in criminological research and thinks through the what and the how of visual criminology with theoretical rigour and conceptual flair." Alison Young, University of Melbourne
"The definitive primer for visual criminology has arrived, one that moves us beyond the image to the work of encounter, engagement, contestation. Get this book and teach it now.” Michelle Brown, University of Tennessee
Bill McClanahan is Assistant Professor of Justice Studies at Eastern Kentucky University, US. He writes at the intersection(s) of ecology, police, and visual culture.
Introducing Visual Criminology
The Visual in Social Science
Visual Methods in Criminology
Environmental Harm and the Visual
Drugs and the Visual
Punishment, Prisons, and the Visual
Police and the Visual
New Horizons in Visual Criminology
