Seeing crime, feeling crime: Visual evidence, emotions, and the prosecution of domestic violence

Changes in prosecutorial strategies vis-a-vis domestic violence introduced new models of investigation that privilege images of victims. Drawing on case law, we argue these visual artefacts of victims' injuries as well as their videotaped sworn statements describing their assaults constitute wh...

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Main Author: Moore, Dawn (Author)
Contributors: Singh, Rashmee
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2018
In: Theoretical criminology
Year: 2018, Volume: 22, Issue: 1, Pages: 116-132
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Keywords:
Affect
Domestic violence
Feminist theory
Photograph
Visual criminology