Law and order: images, meanings, myths

Introduction

Social semiotics : the basics

Representations and their social effects : a template

Science and the semiotics of deviance

The authority of the detective and the birth of the forensic gaze

From the hard-boiled detective to the pre-crime unit : American representations of justice

The invention of the psycho killer and the rise and fall of the welfare state

Chronotopes of crime : perceptions of danger in urban space

"Gruesome" pictures : images and their effects in criminal justice practice.