Opening a window on probation cultures: a photographic imagination

Worrall, Anne; Carr, Nicola; Robinson, Gwen

Abstract

Probation workers are among the least visible in the criminal justice system. Drawing on a pilot photographic project involving probation workers from several European countries, this chapter considers selected photographs and photo-elicitation data from England and Wales and Northern Ireland. It concludes that (amateur, democratized) photography has the potential to empower and give ‘voice’ to practitioners. Further, photo-elicitation suggests that photographs invoke imaginative debate about both the empirical realities and the normative dimensions of probation work and cultures.

Citation

Worrall, A., Carr, N., & Robinson, G. (2017). Opening a window on probation cultures: a photographic imagination. In M. Brown, & E. Carrabine (Eds.), Routledge handbook of visual criminology. Routledge

• Acceptance Date: Sep 30, 2016
• Publication Date: Jun 21, 2017
• Deposit Date: Aug 30, 2017
• Publicly Available Date: Dec 22, 2018
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Series Title: Routledge international handbooks
• Book Title: Routledge handbook of visual criminology
• ISBN: 9781138888630
• Keywords: Visual Criminology, Probation, Punishment
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/867158
• Publisher URL: https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-International-Handbook-of-Visual-Criminology/Brown-Carrabine/p/book/9781138888630
• Additional Information: This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in Routledge handbook of visual criminology on 21 June 2017, available online: http://www.routledge.com/9781138888630