Professor Eamonn Carrabine FBA

Summary

Eamonn Carrabine is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Essex, where he has worked since 1998. His books include 'Crime in Modern Britain' (co-authored, 2002); 'Power, Discourse and Resistance: A Genealogy of the Strangeways Prison Riot' (2004); 'Crime, Culture and the Media' (2008); and 'Crime and Social Theory' (2017).

He has published widely in criminology and sociology. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief on the British Journal of Criminology, and is on the international advisory editorial board of Theoretical Criminology. From 2015 to 2019 Michele Brown (University of Tennessee) and Eamonn co-edited 'Crime, Media, Culture'.

Eamonn was awarded a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship to research his project ‘The Iconography of Punishment: From Renaissance to Modernity’, which ran for three years and began in 2015. He was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in 2016, and has served on the 2014, 2021 and 2029 REF Sociology sub-panels.

His overall intellectual project is dedicated to showing how social theory illuminates central problems in criminology. As such he has published broadly and prolifically: ranging from co-authoring a major sociological introduction to criminology through to influential articles in the major journals in the field.

Alongside this significant body of major works he has been a leading conceptualiser and proponent of ‘visual criminology’. This pioneering approach was recognised by the award of the Radzinowicz Memorial Prize for his 2012 article ‘Just Images’ in the British Journal of Criminology.

He adopts a multi-disciplinary approach, drawing on criminology, history, philosophy, sociology, geography and the visual arts. The key message is that visual analysis is never an end in and of itself, but must always has the goal of social and political explanation firmly in sight.