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CRIME MEDIA CULTURE

@CultureCrime

providing a vehicle for those working at the intersections of criminological and cultural inquiry. Edited by:

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@BiberKatherine

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Katherine Biber

@BiberKatherine

THE LAST OUTLAWS has taken GOLD at

for Best History Podcast An honour to be shortlisted alongside these contestants. Listen here: thelastoutlaws.com.au or wherever you get podcasts Thanks:

and team xxx

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Australian Podcast Awards

The winners of Best History Podcast are: GOLD: The Last Outlaws SILVER: The Greatest Menace: Inside the Gay Prison Experiment @PatrickAbboud BRONZE: Stuff The British Stole @marcfennell #auspodawards

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BSC Historical Criminology Network

Congratulations to #HCNet member

on his recent article ‘The past is prologue: Towards a historico-narrative approach at the intersection of historical criminology and narrative criminology’ in

🎉 You can access it here:

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The past is prologue: Towards a historico-narrative approach at the intersection of historical...

There is great scope for narrative criminology and historical criminology to come together and, in collaboration, find ways for the practices of each to strengt...

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Online first out today: Ghostwriters of crime narratives👌 doi.org/10.1177/174165 have look and enjoy !

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Ghostwriters of crime narratives: Constructing the story by referring to intercept interpreters’...

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My paper 'Make believe: Police accountability, lying and anti-blackness in the inquest of Sean Rigg' has been published

Link to open access pre-published accepted verison further in thread, along with brief overview. doi.org/10.1177/174165

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Travis Linnemann

Really appreciate this review from Jarrod Shanahan. Send More Cops: On Travis Linnemann’s “The Horror of Police” lareviewofbooks.org/article/send-m via

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Send More Cops: On Travis Linnemann’s “The Horror of Police”

Jarrod Shanahan reviews Travis Linnemann’s penetrating new book, “The Horror of Police.”...

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Travis Linnemann

Thanks to the committee and DCC&SJ!!

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@ASCCriticalCrim

Award Annoucement

Please join us in congratulating Dr. Travis Linnemann for winning this year’s Book Award. His book titled, The Horror of the Police is available at upress.umn.edu/book-division/

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big congrats!!

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Katherine Biber

@BiberKatherine

The Last Outlaws won the NSW Premier's History Award on Friday night, in the Digital History category. There was laughter and tears in the Pictures Gallery. @statelibrarynsw Listen: thelastoutlaws.com.au or Spotify or Apple

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Travis Linnemann

Keep an eye out for Johnny's police horror comic: "I’m a Cop": Statements from the Heads of U.S. Police Unions, 2020-2022"

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I had a chance to get an early peek at @crimemann's brilliant new book, The Horror of Police (coming out in September), and made a comic using this particularly striking line from it. Text by Travis Linnemann upress.umn.edu/book-division/

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A new issue of

is out including a CODA from

great new book Coal, Cages, Crisis: The Rise of the Prison Economy in Central Appalachia.

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My co-conspirator

and I couldn't have asked for a more thoughtful review of our book than the one that Kevin Revier wrote for

🙏 So refreshingly free from the unkind spirit that permeates academic "sneer review" culture... 👇

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Book review: Fatsis, Lambros and Lamb, Melayna: Policing the Pandemic: How Public Health Becomes...

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New publication! "Guerrilla gardening as normalised law-breaking: Challenges to land ownership and aesthetic order" - open access in

@ehu_law

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Guerrilla gardening as normalised law-breaking: Challenges to land ownership and aesthetic order -...

This article considers guerrilla gardening that involves taking on other people’s land for gardening, usually without their permission. It is a practice that is...

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a new review of @Victori76635882 great book: Fighting sports, gender, and the commodification of violence: Heavy bag heroines - Ophir Sefiha, 2022

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Book Review: Victoria E Collins, Fighting Sports, Gender, and the Commodification of Violence:...

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New

! Monstrosity, correctional healing, and the limits of penal abolitionism - Nicolas Carrier, 2022

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Monstrosity, correctional healing, and the limits of penal abolitionism - Nicolas Carrier, 2022

Despite gaining significant cultural and academic currency, penal abolitionism remains unable to radically problematize the punishment of individuals found resp...

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New at

Exciting new work challenging a distinct form of carceral tourism: Regimes of representation in Canadian police museums: Othering, police subjectivities, and gunscapes - Haley Pauls, Kevin Walby, Justin Piché, 2022

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Regimes of representation in Canadian police museums: Othering, police subjectivities, and gunsca...

There are dozens of public police museums located across Canada that memorialize the country’s history of law enforcement and criminalization. Drawing from fiel...

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Katherine Biber

@BiberKatherine

This article is now OPEN ACCESS BY POPULAR DEMAND.

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@drdavemcdonald

My article with Jess Oldfield, 'I Am That Girl': Media Reportage, Anonymous Victims and Symbolic Annihilation, is now #OpenAccess . We explore the silencing effects of victim anonymity laws. Free access available here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.117 @unimelbcrim #LetHerSpeak #LetUsSpeak

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Katherine Biber

@BiberKatherine

New article in

out today. Climate change, air pollution and COVID as racialised violence. A tour de force from Anita Lam. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11

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Katherine Biber

@BiberKatherine

New from

Exploring immigration detention through sound.

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@emma_k_russell

Proud of this one, with the amazing Poppy de Souza, reflecting on the work of the Manus Recording Project Collective... Sensing the border(s): Sound and carceral intimacies in and beyond indefinite detention journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17

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"Deforming justice: Representing punishment in The Human Centipede III: Final Sequence" by Steven Kohm & Kevin Walby is publ'd in the March 2022 issue of

…never has the phrase #OpenAccess seemed so appropriate. doi.org/10.1177/174165

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Katherine Biber

@BiberKatherine

Indigenous/First Nations scholars, a great opportunity in a vibrant department

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Natalie Ironfield

Identified Senior Lecturer position going in @unimelbcrim department. If any Mob are interested in the role and thinking of applying please feel free to get in touch. Would loveeee to have another abolitionist in the department! jobs.unimelb.edu.au/caw/en/job/908

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Katherine Biber

@BiberKatherine

Did you watch the video of the Sydney shark attack? Why did you do that?

How the shark death video too gruesome to broadcast spread around the world

Graphic videos of this week's fatal Sydney shark attack have gone viral, but attributing blame for this unbridled voyeurism can be ethically complex, writes NSW digital editor Riley Stuart.

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The Crypto Syllabus

@cryptosyllabus

~ From our curated Bibliography Simon Mackenzie and Diāna Bērziņa explore the hype, and its relationship to the crime prevention promise of NFTs, through the lens of ‘the social lives of things’. By

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NFTs: Digital things and their criminal lives - Simon Mackenzie, Diāna Bērziņa, 2022

The extraordinary current craze around NFTs reflects their perceived value as a technological development that can bring greater certainty to questions of owner...

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Katherine Biber

@BiberKatherine

CALL FOR REVIEWERS

CMC is seeking contributors for its Review section. We work closely with our reviewers, providing editorial support and input. Review Editors: bill.mcclanahan@eku.edu and s.moore2@bath.ac.uk

@SarahAinGlasgow

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CAP Academic Books

NOW IN STOCK Ghost Criminology by Michael Fiddler,

&

explores the haunting effects of crime, violence, and death in our history, memory, and media spaces.

Shop now 👇 combinedacademic.co.uk/9781479842438/

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Punishment and Society

New book review alert! And it's #OpenAccess! Read

's review of *An Organ of Murder: Crime, Violence, and Phrenology in Nineteenth-Century America* by

@SageCriminology

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Book review: An Organ of Murder: Crime, Violence, and Phrenology in Nineteenth-Century America. by...

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Check out this wonderful talk by longtime CMC editor and board member

on spectrality, hauntology and the forthcoming "Ghost Criminology" volume (including

@BiberKatherine

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Jeff Ferrell and many others familiar to

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Travis Linnemann

Great talk by Michael Fiddler @DrMFiddler "From Spectral Images to Phantom Architecture" youtube.com/watch?v=toIlHg

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@kajsa_lundberg

My article 'Moved by fire: green criminology in flux' in

is now available open access if you want to check it out ☺️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11.

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Moved by fire: Green criminology in flux - Kajsa Lundberg, 2022

The destructive bushfires in Australia 2019–2020 resonate with similar trends around the world as bushfire seasons are becoming longer and more pervasive. Yet, ...

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Katherine Biber

@BiberKatherine

Moral panics and media reporting on “African gangs” in Melbourne. This

article by

and

is now OPEN ACCESS BY POPULAR DEMAND!

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Reporting ‘African gangs’: Theorising journalistic practice during a multi-mediated moral panic -...

This article uses Bourdieusian field theory to examine how journalistic practices contributed to a multi-mediated moral panic about ‘African gangs’ in Melbourne...

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Really pleased to see this by

published in

. The cultural scope and criminological potential of the 'hardman story'

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The cultural scope and criminological potential of the “hardman story” - Louise Tanya Wattis, 2021

The true crime genre has become synonymous with the serial killer. As such, other narratives dealing with different types of violent criminal subjects have been...

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It’s out! My contribution to discussions on genocide films, perpetrator testimony & Rithy Panh’s amazing cinema, (hopefully) showing the significance of his works also for #criminology and socio-legal scholarship

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Taking responsibility: Testimonial practices in Rithy Panh’s S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine -...

Genocide films have long contributed to public criminology’s exploration into ethics, responsibility and witnessing after atrocity. Whereas post-Holocaust theor...

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Katherine Biber

@BiberKatherine

New from

by

Criminal "hard men", violent masculinities, night-time economy, true crime writing

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The cultural scope and criminological potential of the “hardman story” - Louise Tanya Wattis, 2021

The true crime genre has become synonymous with the serial killer. As such, other narratives dealing with different types of violent criminal subjects have been...

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Katherine Biber

@BiberKatherine

New from

Video evidence, tech-facilitated violence and crime victims by

and Cheryl Regehr

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Technology facilitated re-victimization: How video evidence of sexual violence contributes to...

With the ubiquity of technological devices producing video and audio recordings, violent crimes are increasingly captured digitally and used as evidence in the ...

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Please, someone write about white vans...

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Travis Linnemann

Steak Gyllenhaal and Antoine Fuqua pair up on a cop/hero flick, this time digging up the white van myth....youtube.com/watch?v=NaB_ER

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Katherine Biber

@BiberKatherine

Important and nuanced work from Mark A. Wood on technology and harm in

Taught me all that I know about #zemiosis

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“Mapping Technology-Harm Relations: From Ambient Harms to Zemiosis” in Crime Media Culture lesscrime.info/cp/lw8

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Katherine Biber

@BiberKatherine

Digital things and their criminal lives examined in new work by Simon Mackenzie and Diana Berzina in

This is where I learned what #NFT stands for... #art #authenticity #technology #crime

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NFTs: Digital things and their criminal lives - Simon Mackenzie, Diāna Bērziņa, 2022

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Travis Linnemann

Great work by

in

...you beat me to it!!!

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Another new paper! Do-it-yourself surveillance: The practices and effects of WhatsApp Neighbourhood Crime Prevention groups - Ronald van Steden, Shanna Mehlbaum, 2021 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11

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Another new paper! Do-it-yourself surveillance: The practices and effects of WhatsApp Neighbourhood Crime Prevention groups - Ronald van Steden, Shanna Mehlbaum, 2021

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Do-it-yourself surveillance: The practices and effects of WhatsApp Neighbourhood Crime Prevention...

WhatsApp Neighbourhood Crime Prevention (WNCP) groups are popular in the Netherlands. As a basic assumption, this kind of digital neighbourhood watch could prev...

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Liviu Alexandrescu

I have a new paper out in

: 'Violence, crime dystopia and the dialectics of (dis)order in The Purge films'.

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Violence, crime dystopia and the dialectics of (dis)order in The Purge films - Liviu Alexandrescu,...

Crime dystopia is the cultural site where some of the most gripping fears around the failure to order, civilise and make life secure are expressed. In The Purge...

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Dr Samantha Keene

Attended a fascinating inaugural lecture by my colleague Professor Simon Mackenzie

@crimwellington

about cryptocurrency recently, so very excited to read his new publication with Diana Berzina on NFTs and their criminal lives, out now in

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NFTs: Digital things and their criminal lives - Simon Mackenzie, Diāna Bērziņa, 2022

The extraordinary current craze around NFTs reflects their perceived value as a technological development that can bring greater certainty to questions of owner...

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Criminology Papers

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“Mapping Technology-Harm Relations: From Ambient Harms to Zemiosis” in Crime Media Culture lesscrime.info/cp/lw8

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Sebastián Galleguillos

@sebgalleguillos

My article on digital vigilantism in Mexico is now available

. Lots of interesting findings on gender, discrimination, and punitive attitudes

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Digilantism, discrimination, and punitive attitudes: A digital vigilantism model - Sebastián...

In this article, I propose and apply a digital vigilantism model to a specific incident that occurred in Mexico, where the death of two innocent people was film...

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