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The scene of the crime: police photographs, visual culture and sexuality

Janes

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Abstract

Visual materials are often neglected by legal researchers. However, as Dominic Janes explains, attitudes to appearances played an important role in the way in which many criminal investigations were undertaken, notably in the years prior to the Sexual Offences Act (1967). Analysis of aspects of visual culture played a role in the detection of many forms of illegal behaviour and the resulting materials provide a valuable resource for the contemporary researcher. These issues are explored through a case study that involves reading between a painting by the British expressionist Francis Bacon (1909–92) and a photograph in the National Archives taken during a police raid on a London flat in 1927.

Publication Date Mar 1, 2015
Journal Legal Information Management
Print ISSN 1472-6696
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 15-18
DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/S1472669615000092
Keywords police photographs, visual culture
Publisher URL http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1472669615000092