Prurience, punishment and the image: Reading ‘law-and-order pornography’

Dymock, Alex. 2017. Prurience, punishment and the image: Reading ‘law-and-order pornography’. Theoretical Criminology, 21(2), pp. 209-224. ISSN 1362-4806 [Article]

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Abstract or Description

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’.

Item Type:

Article

Identification Number (DOI):

https://doi.org/10.1177/1362480616630043

Keywords:

visual criminology, spectatorship, punishment, Wacquant, porn studies, gender and society

Departments, Centres and Research Units:

Law

Dates:

DateEvent
8 January 2016Accepted
4 March 2016Published Online
1 May 2017Published

Item ID:

27773

Date Deposited:

18 Dec 2019 09:46

Last Modified:

10 Jun 2021 00:18

Peer Reviewed:

Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.

URI:

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/27773

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