Cultural Criminology: Transgression, Violence, Imagery

Event Name
Cultural Criminology: Transgression, Violence, Imagery
Date
3 September 2012
Time
01:00 pm - 05:00 pm
Location
Parramatta Campus

Address (Room): EB2.21

Description
Contemporary culture is saturated with accounts and images of crime that circulate both within and across nation states. Under the banner of cultural criminology there has been a major contemporary revival of international interest in the relations between criminal transgression and cultural spheres. 

The speakers at this event will unpack aspects of this revived interest in crime and culture by reporting on their specific analyses of research fields that include organised crime and urban change, homicide and legal culture, the cultural and artistic uses of evidence about crime, masculinities and desistance from offending, violence and new digital technology. 

Papers: 
  • Suburban firms: organised crime on post-industrial terrain (Dick Hobbs)
  • Between men: sexual advances, accidents and masculinities in homicide trials (Stephen Tomsen)
  • The cultural afterlife of criminal evidence (Katherine Biber)
  • Honour, shame and respect: culture and criminal desistance for young Middle Eastern masculinities (Selda Dagistanli)
  • Virtual violence and the gamification of crime control (Michael Salter) 

RSVP: Numbers for this symposium are limited. Please RSVP your attendance request to Christy Nguy (c.nguy@uws.edu.au) as soon as possible. Refreshments and a light lunch will be provided.

Speakers: Professor Dick Hobbs, University of Essex; Associate Professor Katherine Biber, University of Technology Sydney; Professor Stephen Tomsen, University of Western Sydney; Dr Selda Dagistanli and Dr Michael Salter, UWS

Web page: http://www.uws.edu.au/ics/events/cultural_criminology

Contact
Name: Christy Nguy

c.nguy@uws.edu.au

Phone: (02) 9685 9523

School / Department: Institute for Culture and Society