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14 November 2011: Eamonn Carrabine to speak at American Society of Criminology conference in Washington

 Professor Eamonn Carrabine will be presenting his work on 'The Iconography of Punishment: Execution Prints and the Death Penalty' at the American Society of Criminology conference in Washington DC this week. His paper, which published in The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice in December discusses a remarkable cultural turn in the sociology of punishment over the last two decades.

In a field dominated by approaches emphasizing class control and disciplinary power, Eamonn suggests that is no longer possible to ignore the force of representation. His paper develops a cultural analysis of punishment through two iconic examples. The first is an eighteenth century engraving by William Hogarth and the second is a twentieth century Andy Warhol screen print. Each shed light on the social and political conditions existing at the time the work was produced and condense important disputes over the meaning of punishment.