The present study seeks to analyze the growing role / use of the image in relation to the contemporary conditions of society in late modernity, and particularly the visual representations (meanings) extracted from the image of crime and social control as cultural products loaded with meaning, tensions, etc., the power of these images and visual multiples (styles), how we can focus on the lenses (images) of the transgression and the control agencies, and the ways in which these lenses are manipulated by the media, in order to generate a stylized and spectacular culture around these issues. In order to achieve this research intention, Cultural Criminology seeks to understand, both methodologically and theoretically, the symbolic and cultural impact of these conditions of modern society on the institutions of control, and on the very circular meaning of the terms crime and social control, in the sense of defy Criminology by turning its kaleidoscope beyond the economic and social analyzes of Orthodox Criminology to focus on or better identify the flawed side of the image of crime and social control seen in every aspect of our existence and designed by a culture of style, which celebrates and promotes its seductive side. Keywords: Image; Crime and Social Control; Cultural Criminology; Visual representations. O presente estudo busca analisar o crescente papel/uso da imagem em relacao as condicoes contemporaneas da sociedade na modernidade tardia e, particularmente, as representacoes visuais (significados) extraidas da imagem do crime e do controle social enquanto produtos culturais carregados de sentido, de interpretacoes, de tensoes, etc., o poder dessas imagens e desses multiplos visuais (estilos), de que forma podemos focalizar as lentes (imagens) da transgressao e das agencias de controle, e as maneiras pelas quais essas lentes sao manipuladas pelos meios de comunicacao, a fim de gerarem uma cultura estilizada e espetacularizada em torno dessas questoes. Para a concrecao dessa intencao de pesquisa, a Criminologia Cultural procura compreender, tanto metodologica quanto teoricamente, o impacto simbolico e cultural dessas condicoes da sociedade moderna frente as instituicoes de controle, e ao proprio significado circular dos termos crime e controle social, no sentido de desafiar a Criminologia, fazendo girar o seu caleidoscopio para alem das analises economicas e sociais da Criminologia ortodoxa, para focalizar ou melhor identificar o lado impreciso da imagem do crime e do controle social vistas em cada aspecto de nossa existencia, e projetadas por uma cultura de estilo, que festeja e promove o seu lado sedutor. Palavras-chave: Imagem; Crime e Controle social; Criminologia Cultural; Representacoes visuais.