Law and the visible / edited by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, Martha Merrill Umphrey.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sarat, Austin, editor.

Douglas, Lawrence, editor.

Umphrey, Martha Merrill, editor.

Series:

The Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought

The Amherst series in law, jurisprudence, and social thought

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Electronic evidence--United States.

Electronic evidence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (black and white) ;

Place of Publication:

Amherst ; Boston : University of Massachusetts Press, [2021]

Summary:

"If you take a video of police officers beating a Black man into unconsciousness, are you a witness or a bystander? If you livestream your friends dragging the body of an unconscious woman and talking about their plans to violate her, are you an accomplice? Do bodycams and video doorbells tell the truth? Are the ubiquitous technologies of visibility open to interpretation and manipulation? These are just a few of the questions explored in the rich and broadly interdisciplinary essays within this volume, Law and the Visible, the most recent offering in the Amherst Series for Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought. Individual essays discuss the culpability of those who record violence, the history of racialized violence as it streams through police bodycams, the idea of digital images as objective or neutral, the logics of surveillance and transparency, and a defense of anonymity in the digital age. Contributors include Benjamin J. Goold, Torin Monahan, Kelli Moore, Eden Osucha, Jennifer Peterson, and Carrie A. Rentschler"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Ubiquitous video, objectivity, and the problem of perspective in digital visual evidence / Jennifer Petersen

The pessimistic eye using automatic reporting devices in studies of perceptual bias in legal reasoning / Kelli Moore

Mediating responsibility visualizing bystander participation in sexual violence / Carrie A. Rentschler

Between the body-cam and the black body the post-panoptic racial interface / Eden Osucha

Visualizing the surveillance archive critical art and the dangers of transparency / Torin Monahan

Becoming invisible privacy and the value of anonymity / Benjamin J. Goold.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61376-842-7

OCLC:

1226074134