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Abortion in American Film since 2001
Fran Bigman
In American cinema from 1916 to 2000, two main archetypes emerge in portrayals of women seeking abortion: prima donnas and martyrs/victims. While the prima donna category faded over the ...
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A Critical Introduction to Arts Behind Bars
Aylwyn Walsh
This article proposes a focus on some of the arguments in the field—what is “arts behind bars”? What are some of the intentions, and why would people do it? It also signals the range of ...
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A Genre Study of Prosecutors and Criminal Defense Lawyers in American Movies and Television
Michael Asimow
The term genre refers to a set of thematically or stylistically similar popular cultural texts. Courtroom narratives form both movie and television genres, and criminal trials form ...
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Alternatives to Incarceration
Faye S. Taxman and Alex Breno
Alternatives to incarceration are more than options, they have evolved into sentences of their own accord. Originally, probation and prison were the two major sentences; however, the ...
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American Lawyer and Courtroom Comedies
David Ray Papke
A large amount of American law-related popular culture is comedic. Inexpensive literature, Hollywood movies, and prime-time series routinely include images of amusing lawyers and accounts ...
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American Trial Films and the Popular Culture of Law
Jessica Silbey
The American trial and American cinema share certain epistemological tendencies. Both stake claims to an authoritative form of knowledge based on the indubitable quality of observable ...
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A Review of the Validity of Juvenile Risk Assessment Across Race/Ethnicity
Christina Campbell and William Miller
Juvenile risk assessment instruments have provided juvenile courts with the opportunity to make standardized decisions concerning sentences and intervention needs. Risk assessments have ...
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Fakes and Forgeries in Art, and the More Specific Term “Art Fraud”: A Criminological Perspective
Kenneth Polk
Fakes and forgeries are topics of frequent and agitated discussion in the art world. For criminologists, this interests shifts to art fraud because of its fit with issues of non-authentic ...
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Bank Robbery in Popular Culture
Chad Posick
Bank robbery is an uncommon, but highly fascinating, type of crime. The media often focus on bank robberies, especially if an event was violent or involved weapons. However, data show that ...
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Big Data and Visuality
Janet Chan
Internet and telecommunications, ubiquitous sensing devices, and advances in data storage and analytic capacities have heralded the age of Big Data, where the volume, velocity, and variety ...
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