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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.

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9781529207446

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McClanahan has unquestionably achieved the stated aims of the New Horizons in Criminology series, producing a clear and concise introduction to and argument for a recent development in the discipline. I have no hesitation in recommending the monograph, which makes an indispensable contribution to criminology and is an excellent resource for research and teaching alike. Critical Criminology

"""McClanahan has unquestionably achieved the stated aims of the New Horizons in Criminology series, producing a clear and concise introduction to and argument for a recent development in the discipline. I have no hesitation in recommending the monograph, which makes an indispensable contribution to criminology and is an excellent resource for research and teaching alike."" Critical Criminology"

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

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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.

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