The Crime, The Victim and The Voyeur

This project looks at society’s relationship with crime through three perspectives: The Crime and its relationship to civic institutional processes, The Victim and their relationship to these processes, and The Voyeur, the external observer intrigued by crime’s spectacle, image and story. These three perspectives have combined to form a new public-facing Magistrate’s Court and a Crime-themed visitor attraction on the site of the old Castle Market and opposite Sheffield’s ‘Law Quarter’. The proposal asks when does engagement become entertainment, and how the relationship between crime and a voyeuristic public affects the administering of justice.