Rebecca Scott Bray
Biographic Data
| ID | 1258633 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebecca Scott Bray |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebecca Scott |
| FAMILY NAME | Bray |
| SIGNATURE | BRAY R S |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5081-0306 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Mapping coronial discretion in suicide death investigation
Death and Dying
This entry considers sociological attention to death and dying. It provides a historical overview of early sociological theorizing around the denial of death in the context of urbanization, professionalization, and bureaucratization. It charts how movements such as those around hospice care and natural death resisted the institutional control of death and sought to reclaim agency for dying individuals and their families. Central to agency at the …
Coronial Inquests, Indigenous Suicide and the Colonial Narrative
Images of fatal violence
This article explores the criminological contours of using pictures of and about fatal violence in the research process: defined here as encountering them, using them as research data and reproducing them in academic research. It argues that where the wider methodological literature has been quiet on the issue of researching crime’s images, cultural criminologists, security scholars, art historians and others are debating issues around the cultur…
Sydney Institute of Criminology 50 th Anniversary 1966–2016
Sydney Institute of Criminology 50th Anniversary 1966–2016." Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 28(2), pp. 135–136
Exploring fatal facts
Death investigation and coronial practices have undergone significant social, political and legal scrutiny in recent years. A wave of coronial reform has occurred across jurisdictions, including in the United Kingdom (UK), Australia, Canada and New Zealand, with a concomitant focus on the adequacy of death investigation law and policy. Taking key coronial developments in the UK and Australia as its starting point, this paper explores a legal juri…
Introduction
This Special Issue, Frontiers in Coronial Justice, reflects on the future of death investigation studies in the coronial context.Where the uptake of the death studies movement in the social sciences more broadly has expanded the interdisciplinary study of death, comparatively little attention has focused on the work of coroners or their death investigation practices.Important, but albeit ad hoc, contributions from the disciplines of medicine, law…
Spotlight on Coronial Justice
In the first half of 2016, two very different but significant inquests - on opposite sides of the world - entered their final stages. In Sydney, Australia, the inquest into the deaths resulting from the 17-hour siege at the Lindt caf in December 2014 has been undergoing its final segment of public hearings before State Coroner Michael Barnes, after beginning in January 2015. The inquest has scrutinised the siege and events around it, including ke…
Rotten Prettiness? The Forensic Aesthetic and Crime as Art
This article explores the forensic aesthetic of four contemporary artists who draw on the legal archive. The growing cultural engagement with law's archive demonstrates that artists and curators are no longer simply exhibiting archival police photographs. Artists are engaging in diverse translations of crime and highlighting abstract uses of forensic material. Consequently, contemporary artists who engage with the subjects and objects of crime de…
Uneasy Evidence
This article addresses the call for and context of visibility around violence, most specifically when what is engineered after crime is art. Artists who work in the aftermath of injury and fatal violence signal attempts to negotiate the effects of violence and death outside the normative order of law. This article explores work by two artists – Teresa Margolles and Libia Posada – who derive their materials from the fields of medico-legal and fore…
Discolouring Democracy? Policing, Sensitive Evidence, and Contentious Deaths in the United Kingdom
This article examines recent United Kingdom government proposals for secret inquests, which, it is argued, are part of a general push for secrecy discernible across common law jurisdictions, and which include developments such as increased recourse to sensitive evidence in forensic settings and the normalization of intelligence‐led policing. While the push for secrecy is justified by national security claims, the article shows that in cases of co…
The Scene of Violence
Review(s) of: The scene of violence: Cinema, crime, affect, by Alison Young, Routledge-Cavendish, GlassHouse, Abingdon and New York, 2010, 200 pages (ISBN 978-0-415-58508-8)
Closing down Open Justice in the United Kingdom
This Brief examines moves by the UK government to expand secrecy in UK law via proposals to provide for 'closed material procedures' ('CMPs') in coronial and civil proceedings. These proposals are contained in the Justice and Security Green Paper ('the Green Paper'), which was released in October 2011. Importantly, recent coronial reform in the UK has emerged amid a post-9/11 landscape of counter-terrorism and national security considerations, wh…
Teresa Margolles's Crime Scene Aesthetics
When her exhibition "Operativo" opened at New York's Y Gallery, in July 2008, Mexican artist Teresa Margolles said, "Everyone dies but not everyone is murdered. I want people to recognize that." Ostensibly, with this call for recognition, Margolles simultaneously gestures toward both the universality of death and the crucial differentiation of its genres. Death is not a standardized moment or an equal event; it can be untimely, premature, and vio…
Death Scene Jurisprudence
Until recently, the coronial jurisdiction had received little substantive socio-legal or criminological attention, despite its key role in fact-finding around criminal justice matters such as deaths in custody. Recent attention has focused on the promise of the jurisdiction’s pro-therapeutic potential, which is directly related to its purview with regard to death and the capacity to produce social benefits and restorative outcomes from tragic cir…
Coronial Law Reform
En piel ajena
Teresa Margolles is a founding member of SEMEFO, Servicio Médico Forense (Forensic Medical Service), an artist’s collective in Mexico City that created artworks using forensic materials between 1990 and 1999. Since the late 1990s Margolles has created her own solo encounters around death and the mortuary, extending SEMEFO’s interest in the biographies of the dead in relation to social, political and economic practices. This article traverses Marg…
Fugitive performances of death and injury
A legal trial, Felman states, ‘is presumed to be a search for truth, but, technically, it is a search for a decision, and thus, in essence, it seeks not simply truth but a finality: a force of resolution’ (1997: 738). The opening quote to my article reflects one scene of an attempt to support such resolution — that is, a search for knowledge of the ‘actual’ force required to injure a body, thereby eliminating or limiting speculation. Associate Pr…
Suturing The Narrative Body
Teresa Margolles's Crime Scene Aesthetics
When her exhibition "Operativo" opened at New York's Y Gallery, in July 2008, Mexican artist Teresa Margolles said, "Everyone dies but not everyone is murdered. I want people to recognize that." Ostensibly, with this call for recognition, Margolles simultaneously gestures toward both the universality of death and the crucial differentiation of its genres. Death is not a standardized moment or an equal event; it can be untimely, premature, and vio…
Closing down Open Justice in the United Kingdom
This Brief examines moves by the UK government to expand secrecy in UK law via proposals to provide for 'closed material procedures' ('CMPs') in coronial and civil proceedings. These proposals are contained in the Justice and Security Green Paper ('the Green Paper'), which was released in October 2011. Importantly, recent coronial reform in the UK has emerged amid a post-9/11 landscape of counter-terrorism and national security considerations, wh…
Coronial Inquests, Indigenous Suicide and the Colonial Narrative
Coronial Law Reform
Suturing The Narrative Body
Fugitive performances of death and injury
A legal trial, Felman states, ‘is presumed to be a search for truth, but, technically, it is a search for a decision, and thus, in essence, it seeks not simply truth but a finality: a force of resolution’ (1997: 738). The opening quote to my article reflects one scene of an attempt to support such resolution — that is, a search for knowledge of the ‘actual’ force required to injure a body, thereby eliminating or limiting speculation. Associate Pr…
En piel ajena
Teresa Margolles is a founding member of SEMEFO, Servicio Médico Forense (Forensic Medical Service), an artist’s collective in Mexico City that created artworks using forensic materials between 1990 and 1999. Since the late 1990s Margolles has created her own solo encounters around death and the mortuary, extending SEMEFO’s interest in the biographies of the dead in relation to social, political and economic practices. This article traverses Marg…
Death Scene Jurisprudence
Until recently, the coronial jurisdiction had received little substantive socio-legal or criminological attention, despite its key role in fact-finding around criminal justice matters such as deaths in custody. Recent attention has focused on the promise of the jurisdiction’s pro-therapeutic potential, which is directly related to its purview with regard to death and the capacity to produce social benefits and restorative outcomes from tragic cir…
Coronial Law Reform
Teresa Margolles's Crime Scene Aesthetics
When her exhibition "Operativo" opened at New York's Y Gallery, in July 2008, Mexican artist Teresa Margolles said, "Everyone dies but not everyone is murdered. I want people to recognize that." Ostensibly, with this call for recognition, Margolles simultaneously gestures toward both the universality of death and the crucial differentiation of its genres. Death is not a standardized moment or an equal event; it can be untimely, premature, and vio…
The Scene of Violence
Review(s) of: The scene of violence: Cinema, crime, affect, by Alison Young, Routledge-Cavendish, GlassHouse, Abingdon and New York, 2010, 200 pages (ISBN 978-0-415-58508-8)
Closing down Open Justice in the United Kingdom
This Brief examines moves by the UK government to expand secrecy in UK law via proposals to provide for 'closed material procedures' ('CMPs') in coronial and civil proceedings. These proposals are contained in the Justice and Security Green Paper ('the Green Paper'), which was released in October 2011. Importantly, recent coronial reform in the UK has emerged amid a post-9/11 landscape of counter-terrorism and national security considerations, wh…
Uneasy Evidence
This article addresses the call for and context of visibility around violence, most specifically when what is engineered after crime is art. Artists who work in the aftermath of injury and fatal violence signal attempts to negotiate the effects of violence and death outside the normative order of law. This article explores work by two artists – Teresa Margolles and Libia Posada – who derive their materials from the fields of medico-legal and fore…
Discolouring Democracy? Policing, Sensitive Evidence, and Contentious Deaths in the United Kingdom
This article examines recent United Kingdom government proposals for secret inquests, which, it is argued, are part of a general push for secrecy discernible across common law jurisdictions, and which include developments such as increased recourse to sensitive evidence in forensic settings and the normalization of intelligence‐led policing. While the push for secrecy is justified by national security claims, the article shows that in cases of co…
Rotten Prettiness? The Forensic Aesthetic and Crime as Art
This article explores the forensic aesthetic of four contemporary artists who draw on the legal archive. The growing cultural engagement with law's archive demonstrates that artists and curators are no longer simply exhibiting archival police photographs. Artists are engaging in diverse translations of crime and highlighting abstract uses of forensic material. Consequently, contemporary artists who engage with the subjects and objects of crime de…
Sydney Institute of Criminology 50 th Anniversary 1966–2016
Sydney Institute of Criminology 50th Anniversary 1966–2016." Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 28(2), pp. 135–136
Exploring fatal facts
Death investigation and coronial practices have undergone significant social, political and legal scrutiny in recent years. A wave of coronial reform has occurred across jurisdictions, including in the United Kingdom (UK), Australia, Canada and New Zealand, with a concomitant focus on the adequacy of death investigation law and policy. Taking key coronial developments in the UK and Australia as its starting point, this paper explores a legal juri…
Introduction
This Special Issue, Frontiers in Coronial Justice, reflects on the future of death investigation studies in the coronial context.Where the uptake of the death studies movement in the social sciences more broadly has expanded the interdisciplinary study of death, comparatively little attention has focused on the work of coroners or their death investigation practices.Important, but albeit ad hoc, contributions from the disciplines of medicine, law…
Spotlight on Coronial Justice
In the first half of 2016, two very different but significant inquests - on opposite sides of the world - entered their final stages. In Sydney, Australia, the inquest into the deaths resulting from the 17-hour siege at the Lindt caf in December 2014 has been undergoing its final segment of public hearings before State Coroner Michael Barnes, after beginning in January 2015. The inquest has scrutinised the siege and events around it, including ke…
Images of fatal violence
This article explores the criminological contours of using pictures of and about fatal violence in the research process: defined here as encountering them, using them as research data and reproducing them in academic research. It argues that where the wider methodological literature has been quiet on the issue of researching crime’s images, cultural criminologists, security scholars, art historians and others are debating issues around the cultur…
Coronial Inquests, Indigenous Suicide and the Colonial Narrative
Mapping coronial discretion in suicide death investigation
Death and Dying
This entry considers sociological attention to death and dying. It provides a historical overview of early sociological theorizing around the denial of death in the context of urbanization, professionalization, and bureaucratization. It charts how movements such as those around hospice care and natural death resisted the institutional control of death and sought to reclaim agency for dying individuals and their families. Central to agency at the …
Sociology (15 works) · Law (14 works) · Political science (14 works) · Law (11 works) · Criminology (10 works) · Art (7 works) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (6 works) · Autopsy Techniques and Outcomes (5 works) · Economic Justice (5 works) · Politics (5 works)