Photographing Crime Scenes in Twentieth-Century London

Microhistories of Domestic Murder

Dr. Alexa Neale (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

232 Seiten

2022
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-20253-5 (ISBN)

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How can we read crime scenes through photography? Making use of micro-histories of domestic murder and crime scene photographs made available for the first time, Alexa Neale provides a highly original exploration of what crime scenes can tell us about the significance of expectations of domesticity, class, gender, race, privacy and relationships in twentieth-century Britain.

With 10 case studies and 30 black and white images, Photographing Crime Scenes in 20th-Century London will take you inside the homes that were murder crime scenes to read their geographical and symbolic meanings in the light of the development of crime scene photography, forensic analysis and psychological testing. In doing so, it reveals how photographs of domestic objects and spaces were often used to recreate a narrative for the murder based on the defendant's perceived identity rather than to prove if they committed the crime at all.

Bringing the history of crime, British social and cultural history and the history of forensic photography to the analysis of the crime scene, this study offers fascinating details on the changing public and private lives of Londoners in the 20th century.

Alexa Neale is Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow in Historical Criminology at the University of Sussex, UK. She is currently researching crime narratives and the meaning of evidence in a project titled ‘Black Books: The Institutional Memory of Hanging and Mercy at the Home Office’.

List of Illustrations
1. Introduction: Encountering crime scenes

2. ”Isn't Dinner Ready?”: Spatialising working-class home and marriage in Camden3. 'She Wore No Ring': Picturing sexual jealousy and provocation in Bloomsbury4. "The Love Hut": Perverting public/private boundaries in Knightsbridge
5. "Murder Story": Telling 'Ripper' tales in Limehouse and beyond
6. ‘Joseph Aaku's Cat’: Imagining home and race in St. Pancras
7. "We've really hit the jackpot now, doll": Changing lives in North Kensington
8. Conclusion: A place through crimeBibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	06.03.2022
Reihe/Serie	History of Crime, Deviance and Punishment
Zusatzinfo	25 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	331 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-350-20253-3 / 1350202533
ISBN-13	978-1-350-20253-5 / 9781350202535
Zustand	Neuware