Introduction.- Part A: Collecting sensitive visual data.- Chapter 1: Online Gaming Video Data: A Methodological Framework and Ethical Considerations (Nexø).- Chapter 2: Internet memes in extremist digital subcultures: the cases of extreme right-wing and incels (Våge and Andersen).-Chapter 3: Virtual Reality Training as a form of 'Copaganda': Emerging Technology as a Panacea for the problem of Police Brutality (Dowler).- Chapter 4: Participatory research, visual and arts-based methods, and youth digital sexual culture (Setty and Ringrose).- Chapter 5: Online Visual Research and Image Based Sexual Abuse: Ethical,Methodological, and Experiential Dilemmas (Huber).- Chapter 6: Watching Ordinary Violence (Ejbye-Ernst & Rosenkrantz Lindegaard).- Part B: Analyzing sensitive visual data.- Chapter 7: Beneath the Frame: Using Cultural and Visual Criminology to Investigate Extremist Propaganda (Kingdon) .- Chapter 8: The role of the visual in competing narrations around environmental issues, harms and protests (Natali and Di Ronco.- Chapter 9: Building the Communication Essence of Crime Social Learning Theories through Visual Data and Methods (Shao and Lane).- Chapter 10: Dancing during #lockdown: School Shootings, TikTok, and the Playful Mediated (Vickery).- Chapter 11: "F*#k with us and your life will end": The Dilemmas of Discerning local gang cultureon the virtual corner"(Lauger) .- Chapter 12: On the digital backstreet: analyzing cyberstander’s reports of pornography (Harder).- Part C. Mediating sensitive visual data.- Chapter :13 Ethical Issues of Photo-Ethnography from the Perspective of Sociological and Photo-Documentary Research (Copes and Ragland) .- Chapter 14: Nothing about us without us!’ The Sensitivity of Sex Work(ers) Images as Dangerous Knowledge (Oude Breuil et al).-Chapter 15: Visualizing Drugs: Ethical and moral dilemmas (Williams).- Chapter16: Online ethnography of illegal drug markets: A flashback on ethical considerations of visual representationsin research (Bakken).- Chapter 17: Practical Ethics and Visualization in the Social Sciences (Wheeldon).

This edited book provides a toolbox for researchers and students working with sensitive images in criminological research on and offline. Across three sections on collecting, analysing and mediating sensitive visual data, the chapters cover a wide array of current examples and discussions of visual methods and ethics in contemporary, digital-life criminology. It reflects the experiences of influential and innovative scholars engaging in empirical analysis of images across various subfields within criminology, including with images that deal with crime, social problems and stigma. They emphasize the opportunity for gaining knowledge through visual analysis and include methodological discussions of how to approach such sensitive data material. Some chapters address visuals as data in mediated realities and the related methodological concerns. The book also contributes to discussing the various ethical sides to researching crime-related sensitive images, such as anonymity, consent, and access, but also relates to researcher reflexivity and protecting researchers' well-being.

Sidsel Harder is Assistant Professor at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Silje Bakken is Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Oslo, Norway. 

“Since its inception, visual criminology has helped to reconfigure the ways we think about the endless stream of images that wash over our eyes every day. This crucial and critical field has remained, though, largely in the domains of the theoretical, conceptual, and historical. This important book urges visual criminology into the worlds of method and methodology, offering important and often-innovative techniques and tendencies which can equip visual criminologists with the tools necessary to bring this exciting field off the page and into the field. Consistently attentive to the fraught ethics of visual research on harm, crime, and violence, and uniquely engaged with the contemporary ascendance of digital technologies and their relation to the visual, this is an essential text for anyone from teachers to students to researchers wondering how – and why – to conduct visually attuned research in criminology.” (Bill McClanahan, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Tennessee, USA)