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’

Sociology by Anthropologists: A Chapter in the History of an Academic Discipline in Newfoundland during the 1960s

The Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER) was founded as a means of promoting research about Newfoundland. Sociologists taught at Memorial University earlier than anthropologists, but key organizational leaders in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology as well as ISER were British anthropologists whose professional networks rarely included sociologists. Concentrating early ISER research on community studies also led to early “sociological” research being undertaken primarily by anthropologists. The article provides insight into the tension between sociologists and anthropologists at Memorial, as well as insight into the methods used in the community studies of Newfoundland in the 1960s.L’Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER) a été fondé dans le but de promouvoir les travaux de recherche sur Terre-Neuve. Des sociologues ont enseigné à l’Université Memorial plus tôt que des anthropologues, mais les responsables de l’organisation du département de sociologie et d’anthropologie ainsi que de l’ISER ont été des anthropologues britanniques dont les réseaux professionnels comptaient rarement des sociologues. De plus, comme l’ISER a d’abord concentré ses efforts de recherche sur les études communautaires, les premières recherches « sociologiques » y ont été menées surtout par des anthropologues. L’article donne un aperçu des tensions entre sociologues et anthropologues à l’Université Memorial, ainsi que des méthodes utilisées dans les études communautaires de Terre-Neuve dans les années 1960