Caroline Joan "Kay" S. Picart is a scholar and attorney at law practicing in federal and state appellate criminal law, and publishes peer reviewed journal articles and books principally on law, criminology, sociology, and film.Michael Hviid Jacobsen is professor of sociology in the Department of Sociology and Social Work, Aalborg University.Cecil Greek is associate professor of sociology at the University of South Florida.

This edited collection is a truly remarkable interdisciplinary anthology. It is an admirable example of the possibilities inherent in holding meaningful conversations between the different disciplines making claims on the phenomenon of crime. Taken together the contributions in this volume lay down ethical, epistemological and empirical challenges to those who claim to see and know the world as if such seeing and knowing was rooted in facts separable from fiction. In this book all ‘data’ have something to say about the world and its power relations if we have a loose enough imagination to listen. In particular, Framing the Law and Crime offers a notable and hugely valuable advancement on what has become known as ‘cultural criminology’ providing a stimulating intervention in, and important development of, that agenda. It is an essential, cutting edge read for any social scientist endeavouring to understand the social world and the possibilities for making sense of it.

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Framing Law and Crime: An Experiment in Interdisciplinary CommensurabilityCaroline Joan (Kay) S. Picart, Michael Hviid Jacobsen, and Cecil GreekPart I: Cinematic Histories and Real/Reel Dystopias of Law and Crime Chapter 1: Law and Cinema MovementStefan Machura, Bangor University, Criminology and Criminal Justice Chapter 2: The Crisis of Law and the Imaginary of Disaster: Reading Post-Apocalyptic FilmsMajid Yar, Independent Scholar, SociologyChapter 3: A Canadian Perspective on Documentary Film: Drug AddictSusan Boyd, University of Victoria, Canada, Studies in Policies and Practice Program Part II: Jurisprudence in International Films Chapter 4: In the Land of Blood and Honey: What’s Fair or Just in Love and War Crimes? Lessons for Transitional Justice.Carrie Menkel-Meadow, University of California-Irvine, Law Chapter 5: Multifocal Judgment, Intersecting Legal Proceedings and Conservativism: A Separation and Rashomon.Orit Kamir, The Center for Human Dignity, Israel, Law Chapter 6: Beyond the Courtroom—Vigilantism, Revenge, and Rape-Revenge Films in the Cinema of Justice.Peter Robson, University of Strathclyde, Law Part III: Law and Crime in American Film and Television Chapter 7: Alfred Hitchcock—Visions of Guilt and InnocenceMathieu Deflem, University of South Carolina, SociologyChapter 8: Heroes for Hard Times: The Wire’s ‘Good Police’John Denvir, University of San Francisco School of Law, Law Chapter 9: Documenting Crime: Genre, Verity, and Filmmaker as AvengerMatthew Sorrento, Rutgers University, Film and Journalism Chapter 10: Screening the Law: Ideology and Law in American Popular Culture Naomi Mezey, Georgetown University, Law and Mark C. Niles, American University, Law Part IV: Film, Crime, and the Social World Chapter 11:Race and Serial Killing in the Media: The Case of Wayne WilliamsCaroline Joan (Kay) S. Picart, Tim Bower Rodriguez, P.A., Attorney at LawChapter 12. Globalization and the Rise of the Behemoth: A Study in Gothic Criminology Cecil Greek, University of South Florida, Sociology Chapter 13: A Depiction of Evil, Order and Chaos: The Symbiotic Relationship of Law and the Supernatural in Film and TelevisionFarah Britto, University of South Florida, Anthropology, and Cecil Greek, University of South Florida, SociologyChapter 14: From Reel to Real - Conducting Filmic Ethnography in Criminology Michael Hviid Jacobsen, Aalborg University, Sociology and Anders Petersen, Aalborg University, Sociology.Part V: Epistemology and Ethics in Films of Law and Crime Chapter 15. Fact, Fantasy, Fallacy: Division Between Fanciful Musings and Factual MutteringsJon Frauley, University of Ottawa, Criminology Chapter 16: Tobias Beecher: Law as a Refuge from Uncertainty?Steve Greenfield, University of Westminster, LawChapter 17: Nationalities, Histories, Rhetorics: Real/Reel Representations of the Holocaust and Holocaust Trials and a Poethics of Film and LawCaroline Joan (Kay) S. Picart, Tim Bower Rodriguez, P.A., Attorney at Law

Caroline Joan "Kay" S. Picart is a scholar and attorney at law practicing in federal and state appellate criminal law, and publishes peer reviewed journal articles and books principally on law, criminology, sociology, and film.Michael Hviid Jacobsen is professor of sociology in the Department of Sociology and Social Work, Aalborg University.Cecil Greek is associate professor of sociology at the University of South Florida.

This edited collection is a truly remarkable interdisciplinary anthology. It is an admirable example of the possibilities inherent in holding meaningful conversations between the different disciplines making claims on the phenomenon of crime. Taken together the contributions in this volume lay down ethical, epistemological and empirical challenges to those who claim to see and know the world as if such seeing and knowing was rooted in facts separable from fiction. In this book all ‘data’ have something to say about the world and its power relations if we have a loose enough imagination to listen. In particular, Framing the Law and Crime offers a notable and hugely valuable advancement on what has become known as ‘cultural criminology’ providing a stimulating intervention in, and important development of, that agenda. It is an essential, cutting edge read for any social scientist endeavouring to understand the social world and the possibilities for making sense of it.

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Framing Law and Crime: An Experiment in Interdisciplinary CommensurabilityCaroline Joan (Kay) S. Picart, Michael Hviid Jacobsen, and Cecil GreekPart I: Cinematic Histories and Real/Reel Dystopias of Law and Crime Chapter 1: Law and Cinema MovementStefan Machura, Bangor University, Criminology and Criminal Justice Chapter 2: The Crisis of Law and the Imaginary of Disaster: Reading Post-Apocalyptic FilmsMajid Yar, Independent Scholar, SociologyChapter 3: A Canadian Perspective on Documentary Film: Drug AddictSusan Boyd, University of Victoria, Canada, Studies in Policies and Practice Program Part II: Jurisprudence in International Films Chapter 4: In the Land of Blood and Honey: What’s Fair or Just in Love and War Crimes? Lessons for Transitional Justice.Carrie Menkel-Meadow, University of California-Irvine, Law Chapter 5: Multifocal Judgment, Intersecting Legal Proceedings and Conservativism: A Separation and Rashomon.Orit Kamir, The Center for Human Dignity, Israel, Law Chapter 6: Beyond the Courtroom—Vigilantism, Revenge, and Rape-Revenge Films in the Cinema of Justice.Peter Robson, University of Strathclyde, Law Part III: Law and Crime in American Film and Television Chapter 7: Alfred Hitchcock—Visions of Guilt and InnocenceMathieu Deflem, University of South Carolina, SociologyChapter 8: Heroes for Hard Times: The Wire’s ‘Good Police’John Denvir, University of San Francisco School of Law, Law Chapter 9: Documenting Crime: Genre, Verity, and Filmmaker as AvengerMatthew Sorrento, Rutgers University, Film and Journalism Chapter 10: Screening the Law: Ideology and Law in American Popular Culture Naomi Mezey, Georgetown University, Law and Mark C. Niles, American University, Law Part IV: Film, Crime, and the Social World Chapter 11:Race and Serial Killing in the Media: The Case of Wayne WilliamsCaroline Joan (Kay) S. Picart, Tim Bower Rodriguez, P.A., Attorney at LawChapter 12. Globalization and the Rise of the Behemoth: A Study in Gothic Criminology Cecil Greek, University of South Florida, Sociology Chapter 13: A Depiction of Evil, Order and Chaos: The Symbiotic Relationship of Law and the Supernatural in Film and TelevisionFarah Britto, University of South Florida, Anthropology, and Cecil Greek, University of South Florida, SociologyChapter 14: From Reel to Real - Conducting Filmic Ethnography in Criminology Michael Hviid Jacobsen, Aalborg University, Sociology and Anders Petersen, Aalborg University, Sociology.Part V: Epistemology and Ethics in Films of Law and Crime Chapter 15. Fact, Fantasy, Fallacy: Division Between Fanciful Musings and Factual MutteringsJon Frauley, University of Ottawa, Criminology Chapter 16: Tobias Beecher: Law as a Refuge from Uncertainty?Steve Greenfield, University of Westminster, LawChapter 17: Nationalities, Histories, Rhetorics: Real/Reel Representations of the Holocaust and Holocaust Trials and a Poethics of Film and LawCaroline Joan (Kay) S. Picart, Tim Bower Rodriguez, P.A., Attorney at Law