Bill McClanahan writes and researches at the intersections of police, visual and sensory culture, and ecology. He is interested in police power, with a particular focus on its representations of ecology and the nonhuman. He has secondary interests in food, nutrition, and police and the visual and sensory cultures of extractive central Appalachia and their photographic, cinematic, and literary representation. His work in these areas has appeared in Theoretical Criminology, British Journal of Criminology, Crime, Law, and Social Change, Criminological Encounters, Critical Criminology, Deviant Behavior, Commune Magazine, Crime, Media, Culture, and other outlets. He is a coauthor of Water, Crime, and Security in the Twenty-First Century: Too Dirty, Too Little, Too Much (2018) and the author of Visual Criminology (2021). He is presently completing a new book, with coauthor Tyler Wall, on police power.