ABSTRACT
Criminologists urgently need to adjust their lens and refocus their ethos when it comes to conducting research on the human lived experience. This chapter describes how to create coherent visual metanarratives through a lens that challenges assumptions and offers more than the interpretative paradigms criminologists have come to expect from mainstream studies. As concerned criminologists, they are creative dissident minds and servant leaders committed to participatory citizenship and change in consciousness, and should behave as such. A concerned criminologist will shamelessly demonstrate a humanitarian impulse and tirelessly endeavor to educate and change the world, not merely document it. Our individual and collective responsibility to act as concerned criminologists is universal, and the necessary equivalent of the international community's responsibility to protect. The thrill of the adventure stems from the awareness we have of the transformative power of photography, and the unifying power this universal language represents.
