ERC Advanced Grant · 2023
Although violent police-civilian and civilian-civilian encounters constitute a tiny sliver of the social interactions that take place each day, their consequences can be far-reaching. Images of assailants committing ‘bestial’ violence against vulnerable victims arouse public fear and indignation, while the excessive use of force by police undermines public trust, cooperation and the rule of law in democratic societies. Depicting such violence as ‘senseless’ moreover obscures the fact that violent action has meaning to the assailants. Based on the granular analysis of 126 publicly available phone camera recordings of real-life interpersonal conflicts in Paris, London and Berlin, the research…
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