Carrabine, Eamonn (2011) The Iconography of Punishment: Execution Prints and the Death Penalty. The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 50 (5). pp. 452-464. DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2311.2011.00688.x
Carrabine, Eamonn (2011) The Iconography of Punishment: Execution Prints and the Death Penalty. The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 50 (5). pp. 452-464. DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2311.2011.00688.x
Carrabine, Eamonn (2011) The Iconography of Punishment: Execution Prints and the Death Penalty. The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 50 (5). pp. 452-464. DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2311.2011.00688.x
Abstract
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>The last couple of decades have seen a remarkable cultural turn in the sociology of punishment. In a field dominated by approaches emphasising class control and disciplinary power, it is no longer possible to ignore the force of representation. This article develops a cultural analysis of punishment through two iconic examples. The first is an 18th‐<jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">C</jats:styled-content>entury engraving by<jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">W</jats:styled-content>illiam<jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">H</jats:styled-content>ogarth and the second is a 20th‐<jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">C</jats:styled-content>entury<jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">A</jats:styled-content>ndy<jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">W</jats:styled-content>arhol screen print. Each sheds light on the social and political conditions existing at the time the work was produced and condensed important disputes over the meaning of punishment.</jats:p>
Item Type: | Article |
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Additional Information: | Source info: The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, Vol. 50, No. 5, December 2011 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | criminology; culture; representation |
Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology |
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology and Criminology, Department of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 06 Jan 2012 11:31 |
Last Modified: | 23 Oct 2024 05:56 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/1813 |