RT Article
T1 Prurience, punishment and the image: reading ‘law-and-order pornography’
JF Theoretical criminology
VO 21
IS 2
SP 209
OP 224
A1 Dymock, Alex
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1560413379
AB This article aims to expand interpretations of the representational and spectatorial politics of images by investigating what Wacquant has termed ‘law-and-order pornographies’. By this, he refers to images of crime and punishment accorded signifiers of the pornographic and the prurient in order to describe the fusion of the erotic and the punitive. The first part of the article brings into conversation the fields of porn studies and visual criminology. It examines more closely what is at stake in imbuing crime images with the grammar of the pornographic. The second part of the article argues that the application of the pornographic to images of law and order has been refracted back onto the sphere of adult entertainment, in particular, the phenomenon of ‘revenge pornography’.
K1 Gender and society
K1 Porn studies
K1 Punishment
K1 Spectatorship
K1 Visual criminology
K1 Pornographieforschung
DO 10.1177/1362480616630043