Dynamically written and richly illustrated, the Routledge International Handbook of Visual Criminology offers the first foundational primer on visual criminology. Spanning a variety of media and visual modes, this volume assembles established researchers whose work is essential to understanding the role of the visual in criminology and emergent thinkers whose work is taking visual criminology in new directions.
This book is divided into five parts that each highlight a key aspect of visual criminology, exploring the diversity of methods, techniques and theoretical approaches currently shaping the field:
- Part I introduces formative positions in the developments of visual criminology and explores the different disciplines that have contributed to analysing images.
- Part II explores visual representations of crime across film, graphic art, documentary, police photography, press coverage and gra
