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**Explores the role of stories in criminal culture and justice systems around the world** Stories are much more than a means of communication—stories help us shape our identities, make sense of the world, and mobilize others to action. In Narrative Criminology, prominent scholars from across the academy and around the world examine stories that animate offending. From an examination of how criminals understand certain types of crime to be less moral than others, to how violent offenders and drug users each come to understand or resist their identity as ‘criminals’, to how cultural narratives motivate genocidal action, the case studies in this book cover a wide array of crimes and justice systems throughout the world. The contributors uncover the narratives at the center of their essays through qualitative interviews, ethnographic fieldwork, and written archives, and they scrutinize narrative structure and meaning by analyzing genres, plots, metaphors, and other components of storytelling. In doing so, they reveal the cognitive, ideological, and institutional mechanisms by which narratives promote harmful action. Finally, they consider how offenders’ narratives are linked to and eme

Who reads Narrative Criminology: Understanding Stories of Crime (Alternative Criminology, 17)?

Author

Presser, Lois (editor);Sandberg, Sveinung (editor)

Publisher

New York University Press

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781479895731

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Anthropology, Social Science

Updated

2026-03-24