Visual Criminology: Crime, Criminal Justice, and the Image

with support from the ESRC – grant reference: ES/J022381/1

Seminar 4:

Uses of the Image in Crime Control and Criminal Justice

When and Where?

Friday 4^th July: 1.00 – 6.00 p.m., Function Room 1, Wivenhoe House, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, Essex, CO4 3SQ (car parking available if you let me know in advance)

Admission: FREE, But please inform Eamonn Carrabine (eamonn@essex.ac.uk) if you are planning to attend this seminar as space will be limited.

How to find Wivenhoe House?

Please check this link for a pdf with travel directions by car and train: http://www.wivenhoehouse.co.uk/getattachment/home/WH-map.pdf?ext=.pdf

Programme:

1.00–1.15 p.m.

Eamonn Carrabine, Professor of Sociology, University of Essex

Welcome and Introduction – Visual Criminology: Uses of the Image in Crime Control and Criminal Justice

1.15 – 2.00 p.m.

Michelle Brown, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Tennessee

Social Death, Mass Incarceration, and the Counter-Visual

2.00 – 2.45 p.m.

Phil Carney, Lecturer in Criminology, University of Kent

The Punitive Gaze: How Does the Photograph Punish?

2.45 – 3.30 p.m.

Edmund Clark, Photographer

Still Life: Killing Time

3.30 – 3.45 p.m.

Coffee/tea break

3.45 – 4.30 p.m.

Chris Greer and Eugene McLaughlin, Professors of Sociology, City University

Visualising Scandal: The Transformation of Sir Jimmy Savile from National Treasure to Prolific Sexual Predator

4.30 – 5.15 p.m.

Michael Fiddler, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, University of Greenwich

A Criminological Uncanny: Using Freud to Illuminate the Dark Spaces of Crime and Punishment

5.15 – 6.00 p.m.

Jacqueline Wilson, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Federation University, Australia

Diaries on the Wall: Prison Graffiti as Narratives of Identity, Power and Transgression

6.00 p.m.

Drinks and dinner in Wivenhoe House