Spanning a variety of media, this book offers the first foundational handbook on visual criminology. Considering theory, representations of crime and justice, ethics of visual research methods and the challenges and limits of visual criminology.

Michelle Brown is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Tennessee, USA.

Eamonn Carrabine is Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex, UK.

1. Introducing Visual Criminology, Michelle Brown and Eamonn Carrabine

Part I: Foundations - History, Theory Methods

2. Law, evidence and representation, Katherine Biber
3. Social science and visual culture, Eamonn Carrabine
4. "We never, never talked about photography": Documentary photography, visual criminology, and method, Jeff Ferrell
5. Crime films and visual criminology, Nicole Rafter
6. Key methods of visual criminology: An overview of different approaches and their affordances, Luc Pauwels
7. Visions of legitimacy: Public criminology, the image and the legitimation of the carceral state, Jonathan Simon
8. Carceral geography and the spatialization of carceral studies, Dominique Moran
9. Art and its unruly histories: Old and new formations, Eamonn Carrabine

Part II: Images and Crime

10. Making the criminal visible: photography and criminality, Jonathan Finn
11. Documentary criminology: A cultural criminological introduction, Keith Hayward
12. Going feral: Kamp Katrina as a case study of documentary criminology, David Redmon
13. Mediated suffering, Sandra Walklate
14. Media, popular culture and the lone wolf terrorist: The evolution of targeting, tactics and violent ideologies, Mark Hamm and Ramón Spaaij
15. Representing the pedophile, Steven Kohm
16. Street art, graffiti and urban aesthetics, Alison Young
17. Risky business: Visual representations in corporate crime films, Gray Cavender and Nancy Jurik
18. Crimesploitation, Paul Kaplan and Daniel LaChance

Part III: Images and Criminal Justice

19. In plain view: Violence and the police image. Travis Linneman
20. The role of the visual in the restoration of social order, Tony Kearon
21. Opening a window on probation cultures: A photographic imagination, Anne Worrall, Nicola Carr and Gwen Robinson
22. How does the photograph punish?, Phil Carney
23. The visual retreat of the prison: Non-places for Non-people, Yvonne Jewkes, Eleanor Slee and Dominique Moran
24. Pervasive punishment: Experiencing supervision, Wendy Fitzgibbon, Christine Graebsch and Fergus McNeill
25. Graphic justice and criminological aesthetics: Visual criminology on the streets of Gotham, Thomas Giddens

Part IV: Accusing Images and Images Accused

26. Staged imagery of killing and torture: Ethical and normative dimensions of seeing, Lieve Gies
27. Jus Des(s)erts? Crime and Punishment in the Italian Last Judgement, Lisa Wade
28. Visualizing blackness - racializing gameness: Social inequalities in virtual gaming communities, Jordan Mazurek and Kishonna Gray
29. Visual power and sovereignty: Indigenous art and colonialism, Chris Cuneen
30. Asylum seekers and moving images: Walking, sensorial encounters and visual criminology, Maggie O'Neill
31. Visual criminology and cultural memory: The aestheticization of boat people, Jacqueline Wilson
32. Seeing and seeing-as: Building a politics of visibility in criminology, Sarah Armstrong
33. The concerned criminologist: Refocusing the ethos of socially committed photographic research, Cécile Van de Voorde
34. Los Angeles, urban history and neo-noir cinema, Gareth Millington
35. Against a "humanizing" prison cinema: The Prison in Twelve Landscapes and the politics of abolition imagery, Brett Story

Part V: Future Directions

36. Fascinated receptivity and the visual unconscious of crime, Stephen Pfohl
37. The criminologist as visual scholar in a global mediascape, Michelle Brown
38. Sunk capital, sinking prisons, stinking landfills: Landscape, ideology, visuality and the carceral state in central Appalachia, Judah Schept
39. Territorial coding in street art and censure: Ernest Pignon-Ernest's contribution to visual criminology, Ronnie Lippens
40. Representations of environmental crime and harm: A green-cultural criminological perspective on Human-Altered Landscapes, Avi Brisman
41. There's no place like home: Encountering crime and criminality in representations of the domestic, Michael Fiddler
42. Monstrous nature: A meeting of gothic, green and cultural criminologies, Nigel South