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Caroline Joan "Kay" S. Picart is a scholar and attorney at law practicing in federal and state appellate criminal law, and publishes peer reviewed journal articles and books principally on law, criminology, sociology, and film.
Michael Hviid Jacobsen is professor of sociology in the Department of Sociology and Social Work, Aalborg University.
Cecil Greek is associate professor of sociology at the University of South Florida.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Framing Law and Crime: An Experiment in Interdisciplinary Commensurability
Caroline Joan (Kay) S. Picart, Michael Hviid Jacobsen, and Cecil Greek
Part I: Cinematic Histories and Real/Reel Dystopias of Law and Crime
Chapter 1: Law and Cinema Movement
Stefan Machura, Bangor University, Criminology and Criminal Justice
Chapter 2: The Crisis of Law and the Imaginary of Disaster: Reading Post-Apocalyptic Films
Majid Yar, Independent Scholar, Sociology
Chapter 3: A Canadian Perspective on Documentary Film: Drug Addict
Susan Boyd, University of Victoria, Canada, Studies in Policies and Practice Program
Part II: Jurisprudence in International Films
Chapter 4: In the Land of Blood and Honey: What’s Fair or Just in Love and War Crimes? Lessons for Transitional Justice.
Carrie Menkel-Meadow, University of California-Irvine, Law
Chapter 5: Multifocal Judgment, Intersecting Legal Proceedings and Conservativism: A Separation and Rashomon.
Orit Kamir, The Center for Human Dignity, Israel, Law
Chapter 6: Beyond the Courtroom—Vigilantism, Revenge, and Rape-Revenge Films in the Cinema of Justice.
Peter Robson, University of Strathclyde, Law
Part III: Law and Crime in American Film and Television
Chapter 7: Alfred Hitchcock—Visions of Guilt and Innocence
Mathieu Deflem, University of South Carolina, Sociology
Chapter 8: Heroes for Hard Times: The Wire’s ‘Good Police’
John Denvir, University of San Francisco School of Law, Law
Chapter 9: Documenting Crime: Genre, Verity, and Filmmaker as Avenger
Matthew Sorrento, Rutgers University, Film and Journalism
Chapter 10: Screening the Law: Ideology and Law in American Popular Culture
Naomi Mezey, Georgetown University, Law and Mark C. Niles, American University, Law
Part IV: Film, Crime, and the Social World
Chapter 11:Race and Serial Killing in the Media: The Case of Wayne Williams
Caroline Joan (Kay) S. Picart, Tim Bower Rodriguez, P.A., Attorney at Law
Chapter 12. Globalization and the Rise of the Behemoth: A Study in Gothic Criminology
Cecil Greek, University of South Florida, Sociology
Chapter 13: A Depiction of Evil, Order and Chaos: The Symbiotic Relationship of Law and the Supernatural in Film and Television
Farah Britto, University of South Florida, Anthropology, and Cecil Greek, University of South Florida, Sociology
Chapter 14: From Reel to Real - Conducting Filmic Ethnography in Criminology
Michael Hviid Jacobsen, Aalborg University, Sociology and Anders Petersen, Aalborg University, Sociology.
Part V: Epistemology and Ethics in Films of Law and Crime
Chapter 15. Fact, Fantasy, Fallacy: Division Between Fanciful Musings and Factual Mutterings
Jon Frauley, University of Ottawa, Criminology
Chapter 16: Tobias Beecher: Law as a Refuge from Uncertainty?
Steve Greenfield, University of Westminster, Law
Chapter 17: Nationalities, Histories, Rhetorics: Real/Reel Representations of the Holocaust and Holocaust Trials and a Poethics of Film and Law
Caroline Joan (Kay) S. Picart, Tim Bower Rodriguez, P.A., Attorney at Law
This edited collection is a truly remarkable interdisciplinary anthology. It is an admirable example of the possibilities inherent in holding meaningful conversations between the different disciplines making claims on the phenomenon of crime. Taken together the contributions in this volume lay down ethical, epistemological and empirical challenges to those who claim to see and know the world as if such seeing and knowing was rooted in facts separable from fiction. In this book all ‘data’ have something to say about the world and its power relations if we have a loose enough imagination to listen. In particular, Framing the Law and Crime offers a notable and hugely valuable advancement on what has become known as ‘cultural criminology’ providing a stimulating intervention in, and important development of, that agenda. It is an essential, cutting edge read for any social scientist endeavouring to understand the social world and the possibilities for making sense of it.
— Sandra Walklate, Eleanor Rathbone Chair of Sociology, University of Liverpool, England, U.K. and Professor of Criminology, Monash University, Australia; Editor in Chief, British Journal of Criminology
The study of the interface between law and the media of popular culture now spans numerous academic disciplines and is practiced everywhere in the world. Framing Law and Crime: An Interdisciplinary Anthology is a welcome addition to the literature on this subject. Some of the authors of the provocative essays in this volume are law professors but others come from criminology, sociology, psychology, and other disciplines. All of the entries concern visual media and the criminal law process, but in vastly different ways. They offer the reader insights on such diverse subjects as Baltimore policemen, survival in prison, rape revenge, serial killers, the Bosnian tragedy, and washed-up lawyers as well as profound analyses of film theory, epistemology, and criminology. Everyone with a professional or personal interest in popular culture and its relationship to law will benefit from reading these essays.
— Michael Asimow, Visiting Professor of Law, Stanford Law School; Professor of Law Emeritus, UCLA School of Law; co-author of Law and Popular Culture: A Course Book; Reel Justice: The Courtroom Goes to the Movies; and Lawyers in Your Living Room! Law on Television.