Books by Alison (University of Melbourne Young

A crucial question in the analysis of legal practices concerns the processes of identification with, in and as law - a question of how and by what route law achieves its ends. This book considers how law and legal practices figure in the cultural field; and, specifically, in film.

This work extends the cultural turn in legal and criminological studies by interrogating our responses to the image. It provides a space to think through problems of ethics, social authority and the legal imagination.