Visual criminology and carceral studies

Counter-images in the carceral age

Dados Bibliográficos

ID5805877
AutoresMichelle Brown (0000-0001-7838-7696, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, autor correspondente)
Ano2014
Volume18
Fascículo2
Páginas176-197
Data de publicação2014-04-28
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoTheoretical Criminology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1362-4806 • E-ISSN: 1461-7439
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1362480613508426
OpenAlexW2057431384
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas65
Referências citadas51

Mass incarceration maps onto global neoliberal carceral formations that, in turn, look very much like a visual iconography of social suffering. Camp or prison-like conditions define the daily life of many of the world's inhabitants caught in contexts of detention, incarceration, forced migration, and population displacement. Often depicted as abject subjects, actors in carceral contexts and the people who organize with them seek to find strategies of representation that humanize and politicize their existence. This essay attempts to gain a sense of the visual struggles at the heart of these carceral scenes by way of an analysis of the use of images and new media by current and former prisoners, community members, artists, and scholars to counter mass incarceration in the United States. Such scenes are significant sites for examining how a visual criminology might reveal and participate in the contestations and interventions that increasingly challenge the project of mass incarceration

Mass incarceration · Representation · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Photography and Visual Culture