ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book illustrates the conventional use of surveillance camera images in news and commemorative journalism: a surveillance camera image in the news shows a person or an event that most likely has something to do with deviance, a tragic catastrophe, or both. It points out the classed and raced logics that underlie the use of surveillance camera images: when we see CCTV images in the news, we are conditioned to expect that they will depict poor people, often from a minority background, conducting visually dramatic crimes. The book refers to some works of fiction that have remediated the iconic images of Jamie Bulger, it is in the ‘fiction of being captured’ that we find a conscious reappropriation of the arrangement and the underlying logics of the camera circuit as representations of contemporary Britain.
