Images of fatal violence: negotiating the dark heart of death research.
This article explores the criminological contours of using pictures of and about fatal violence in the research process: defined here as encountering them, using them as research data and reproducing them in academic research. It argues that where the wider methodological literature has been quiet o...
| Published in: | Mortality Vol. 22; no. 2; pp. 136 - 155 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
May2017
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