Pub Date : 2023-06-02DOI: 10.1177/17416590231168330
C. Nelson
This article analyses the cultural construction of gender in a highly mediated, globally publicised Australian murder trial. Using the tools of multimodal socio-linguistic analysis, it interrogates the construction of a key female witness – known by the legal pseudonym ‘JC’ – in the physical, digitally distributed and livestreamed courtroom and subsequently through the media sphere, including in newspapers, magazines, podcasts, television and social media. It surfaces a victimblaming narrative in relation to alleged child sexual abuse that was an underlying theme in pretrial reporting, a central feature of the defence’s courtroom strategy and cross examination, and subsequently a dominant focus of the mainstream media’s trial coverage. It traces the emergence of a counter-discourse on social media largely propelled by contributors self-identifying as young women, and the radical reframing of the media narrative in response to the court’s verdict. The article also contextualises its findings against a background in which media technologies and media logics are dramatically reshaping the court’s practices and procedures in relation to ‘open justice’, as evidenced by the operation of the virtual media gallery and publicly livestreamed verdict. It concludes that the hyper-gendered narratives that framed the case are not new. Instead, media technologies – including the court’s livestream, and the public’s use of interactive media platforms – have brought new visibility to a longstanding socio-cultural problem. In Australia, R v Christopher Michael Dawson has been widely celebrated as a step forward for gender equality and the treatment of domestic and sexual abuse by and in the media and the legal system. This analysis demonstrates that in reality change is marginal and uneven.
本文分析了一个高度中介的、全球宣传的澳大利亚谋杀案审判中的性别文化建构。使用多模态社会语言学分析的工具，它在实体、数字分发和直播的法庭中，以及随后通过媒体领域，包括报纸、杂志、播客、电视和社交媒体，询问了一个关键女性证人(法律笔名“JC”)的构建。它揭示了与所谓的儿童性虐待有关的受害者指责叙事，这是审前报告的潜在主题，是辩方法庭策略和交叉询问的核心特征，随后成为主流媒体审判报道的主要焦点。它追溯了社交媒体上出现的一种反话语，主要是由自我认定为年轻女性的撰稿人推动的，以及媒体叙事对法院判决的激进重构。文章亦将调查结果置于媒体技术与媒体逻辑戏剧性地重塑法院“公开司法”惯例与程序的背景下，虚拟媒体画廊的运作与公开直播的判决就是明证。它的结论是，构成此案的超性别叙事并不新鲜。相反，媒体技术——包括法院的直播和公众对互动媒体平台的使用——为一个长期存在的社会文化问题带来了新的能见度。在澳大利亚，R v Christopher Michael Dawson案被广泛认为是性别平等的进步，是媒体和法律体系对待家庭暴力和性虐待的进步。这一分析表明，在现实中，变化是边缘的和不平衡的。
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Pub Date : 2023-04-12DOI: 10.1177/17416590231161510
A. Young, H. Popovski
Public protests need to communicate their aims to an audience, and the audience must make sense of the message. Initially this article was planned as a visual analysis of protest signs and placards. But to avoid ‘reproduc[ing] the privileged position of sight and vision over other ways of knowing’, we attend to the contested relations between signification, power, and all the senses. The sounds, smells, sights, tastes, and textures found at protests by groups such as Extinction Rebellion, Occupy, and the gilets jaunes, and on issues including women’s rights, nuclear power, immigration detention, Covid-19 lockdowns and vaccination mandates. Through ethnographic documentation of protests and the ‘live’ coverage broadcast in social and news media, our investigation of activities, scenes, signs, and participants reveals, firstly, that public dissent communicates through multiple sensory dimensions, and, secondly, that the senses of street-based protests are inextricably intertwined with sensory control tactics used against protesters in the policing of events.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-12DOI: 10.1177/17416590231168337
R. Ricciardelli, Mark C. J. Stoddart, Heather Austin
The work of correctional officers (COs) is essential yet remains largely hidden from society. As such, media framing plays an important role in shaping public perceptions of COs and their work. COs encounter adverse events over the course of their occupational work and are legally—and sometimes publicly—held accountable. In the current study, we first present a text-based frame analysis of local news media published between January 2019 and December 2019 to see how COs are represented in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador (NL). We then draw from 25 interviews with COs employed at Her [His] Majesty’s Penitentiary in St. John’s, NL, to learn how the officers interpret the media’s framing of their occupation. Grounded emergent theme analyses of interview data reveal officers share concerns about what they perceived as unfair negative media framing. COs more often feel like objects of media framing with little agency to shape media narratives about their work. COs’ lay theories about their representation in mainstream news media illuminate a misalignment between media framing and their own work experience. This misalignment is a source of anxiety and additional job strain.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-12DOI: 10.1177/17416590231168523
Theodore Martin
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Pub Date : 2023-03-29DOI: 10.1177/17416590231156745
Michael Fiddler, Theo Kindynis, Travis Linnemann
of what dangers lurk in the depths of the (sociological) sea can be at least partially answered by viewing our own reflection in the water. Ghost Criminology’s approach to research is creative and at times even artistic. More often than not, the chapters use empirical examples to illustrate theoretical concepts, rather than employing theories to explain data sets. Moreover, the collection adds new nuances to research methods in ethnography and media studies, focusing on processes of (dis)appearance. As such, the book has a novel approach to knowledge production that balances right on the edge of playfulness while remaining attentive to the seriousness of its subject matter. Read in this light, Ghost Criminology is as much about doing criminology in new and creative ways as it is about (new and old) topics of criminological interest. As such, the book promises an inspiring read regarding both the hows and the whats of contemporary criminology.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-10DOI: 10.1177/17416590231156734
M. Wood
foundational
基础
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Pub Date : 2023-03-10DOI: 10.1177/17416590231156698
E. Russell
Criminology needs to reckon with its ghosts; to wager with the harrowing traces that lurk in its textbooks, its archives and its institutional sites of inquiry. The racist, colonial foundations of the criminological enterprise, combined with the deathly logics of the carceral state, compels critics from within and outside the discipline to argue for criminology’s demise. And, perhaps, rightly so. ‘In keeping with antiblackness’, Brown (p. 92) writes, criminology is ‘an archive of nonbeing’. What, then, does a ghost criminology have to offer? In this review, I read Ghost Criminology for its capacity to advance an abolitionist current in, around and against the discipline. The spectre of abolition is conjured by an analytic thread and ethical commitment that runs through the collection, that insists on treating death and destruction not as aberrations in the administration of law and ‘justice’, but central to its functioning. Proceeding from this standpoint, Ghost Criminology develops new theoretical orientations, conceptual tools and methods to undermine the pervasiveness of carceral logics in the discipline. I also attend to some other important avenues for future spectral inquiry, namely queer hauntologies and ghostly sound/prisonscapes. By drawing together pockets of the discipline that are frequently ‘dismissed as unscientific or irrational’ (p. 14), the editors of Ghost Criminology engage questions about how violence lives on in places long after it is assumed to have concluded. They collate a range of provocative works that attend to repressed knowledges, transgressive practices and the lingering effects of past atrocity that negate ‘simple linear progressions’ (Young, p. 249) of time or otherwise ‘confuse and stir’ (p. 15) spatial and temporal boundaries. Throughout the collection, scholars attend to the myriad ways in which State power ‘disowns its own violence’ (p. 17), including through ‘perpetual acts of destruction, denial and obfuscation’ (Biber, p. 176). As in other disciplines, ghostly matters in criminology are therefore not simply theoretical or aesthetic, but profoundly political, demanding responsibility and accountability to the dead. Over its first two parts, Ghost Criminology builds a critique of the foundational violence of the US police. Contributions by Brown, Linnemann and Turner and McClanahan cumulatively advance the argument that, despite the sensationalised media coverage and the insistence of police reformers, police killings are not exceptions to the rule, but ‘single points in uninterrupted lines of police violence and terror’ (McClanahan, p. 216). Buoyed by the twin structures of capital and white supremacy, McClanahan shows how the police are a killing power that are ‘always about the blood and breath of both its practitioners and its subjects’ (p. 220). From the cops’ ‘blue brotherhood’ to the haunting chants of ‘I can’t breathe’, the police have respiratory anxieties with 1156698 CMC0010.1177/17416590231156698C
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Pub Date : 2023-03-10DOI: 10.1177/17416590231156744
Tea Fredriksson
foundational
基础
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Pub Date : 2023-03-07DOI: 10.1177/17416590231159717
Daniel Patten
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