Criminologia Cultural

Cultural criminology explores the many ways in which cultural dynamics intertwine with the practices of crime and criminal control in contemporary society; in other words, cultural criminology emphasizes the centrality of meaning and representation in the construction of crime as a momentary event, a subcultural effort and a social issue. From this point of view, the appropriate subject of criminology transcends traditional notions of crime and causality of crime, to include images of illicit behavior and symbolic displays of law enforcement; constructions of popular culture of crime and criminal action; and the shared emotions that animate criminal events, perceptions of criminal threats and public efforts to control crime.A criminologia cultural explora as muitas maneiras nas quais as dinâmicas culturais se entrelaçam com as práticas do crime e do controle criminal na sociedade contemporânea; em outras palavras, a criminologia cultural enfatiza a centralidade do significado e da representação na construção do crime como evento momentâneo, um esforço subcultural e uma questão social. Desse ponto de vista, o assunto apropriado da criminologia transcende as noções tradicionais de crime e causalidade do crime, para incluir imagens de comportamentos ilícitos e exibições simbólicas de aplicação do direito; construções de cultura popular do crime e ação criminal; e as emoções compartilhadas que animam eventos criminosos, percepções de ameaças criminais e esforços públicos no controle do crime

Legitimating space: art and the politics of place

Rock art, graffiti, and other emplaced works of art bring people together at specific places. This type of art allows for encounters between people in their absence, and thus presents a range of possibilities for making statements about specific places and those who occupy or visit. This opens the possibility for issues of legitimation to become implicitly or explicitly articulated. However, the legitimate use of space, and the legitimate employment of art, can vary drastically across different contexts. Here, the paper discusses a range of different strategies of art and legitimation in three case studies from India, California, and Spai

Sketching women in court: The visual construction of co-accused women in court drawings

This paper explores the visual construction and representation of co-accused women offenders in court drawings. It utilises three case studies of female co-defendants who appeared in the England and Wales court system between 2003 and 2013. In doing so this paper falls into three parts. The first part considers the emergence of the sub-discipline, visual criminology and examines what is known about the visual representation of female offenders. The second part presents the findings of an empirical investigation, which involved engaging in a critical, reflexive visual analysis of a selection of court drawings of three female co-offenders. The third part discusses the ways in which the court artists' interpretation, the conventions of court sketching, and motifs of female offenders as secondary actors, drew on existing myths and prejudices by representing the women as listening, remorseless ‘others’