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Richard Ross “Juvenile In Justice”
Richard Ross is an American photographer who has documented, through narratives and images, what it is like to be “in the system” as a juvenile offender in various locations across the United States....
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Cultural Criminology and Reification of the Ideological Superstructure: An...
It has become very fashionable of late for leftist criminologists, particularly those associated with the cultural criminology movement, to embrace semiotics, textual critique and discourse analysis as...
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Travel as a Political Act (and take students!)
Faculty travel to Cuba. Source: Tammy Castle. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.” – Mark Twain The first time I...
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The Ghost of the Condemned: What the Death Penalty Leaves Behind, Captured in...
Photograph courtesy of Gloria Rubac and used with her permission. This blog was inspired by Jeff Ferrell’s talk at the most recent International Crime, Media & Popular Culture Studies Conference...
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Tragedy then Farce or Farce then Tragedy? Umpqua Community College Shooting...
Several reports related to the Umpqua Community College shootings in Oregon have indicated that the shooter may have posted a warning to the Internet image-sharing site 4chan. A familiar trope there is...
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Film the Police Anyway: Questioning the “Ferguson Effect”
Photo by Ashley K. Farmer in Washington, D.C., December 2014 It is no secret that police officers are dealing with changes and increased media attention to their profession, especially since the...
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Black Panther: Detournement of the Culture Industry
Source: Black Panther Marvel/Walt Disney Pictures The recent release of Marvel’s Black Panther has become the second-largest debut for a Marvel film, bringing in well over $200 million and breaking...
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