‘Less museum and more like Disney’ The infantilisation of dark histories: Objective violence at Bodmin Jail
Published online on June 30, 2025
Abstract
Crime, Media, Culture, Ahead of Print.
This paper uses the Bodmin Jail Attraction in Cornwall, UK, as a case study to explore how sites of dark tourism have been subsumed into infantilised consumer culture. In these commodified, disney-esque forms, rather than being spaces of reflection and ...
This paper uses the Bodmin Jail Attraction in Cornwall, UK, as a case study to explore how sites of dark tourism have been subsumed into infantilised consumer culture. In these commodified, disney-esque forms, rather than being spaces of reflection and ...