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Conflicting Narratives of Crime and Punishment

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Editors:
  1. Martina Althoff

    1. Department of Criminal Law & Criminology, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

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  2. Bernd Dollinger

    1. Department of Education & Psychology, University of Siegen, Siegen, Germany

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  3. Holger Schmidt

    1. Department of Social Education, Adult Education and Early Childhood Education (ISEP), TU Dortmund University, Dortmund, Germany

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  • Examines conflicting narratives in diverse criminological contexts
  • Sets the theoretical foundations for this emerging area of study
  • Includes a section on narrations of gender, crime and migration

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Fighting for the “Right” Narrative: Introduction to Conflicting Narratives of Crime and Punishment

    • Martina Althoff, Bernd Dollinger, Holger Schmidt
    Pages 1-20

  5. Crime Narratives in Social and Criminal Justice

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 181-181
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    2. ‘Let’s Put Human Rights Right’: (Counter) Narratives About Human Rights in the UK Popular Press

      • Lieve Gies
      Pages 183-199

    3. Files as Prototypical Master Narratives

      • Mechthild Bereswill, Henrike Buhr, Patrik Müller-Behme
      Pages 201-218

    4. Practical Narratives in the Criminal Law Process: The Suspect’s Statement

      • Martha Komter
      Pages 219-236

  6. Media Outrages and Narrations of Gender, Crime and Migration

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 237-237
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    2. Competing Narratives in the Nexus of Migration-Crime-Gender

      • Maria De Angelis
      Pages 239-258

    3. Stories of Gender and Migration, Crime and Security: Between Outrage and Denial

      • Martina Althoff
      Pages 259-278

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 279-288
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About this book

This book illustrates the importance of conflicting narratives in understanding and dealing with crime, based on a variety of cutting-edge research. Offenders tell stories about crime and punishment, as do policemen, judges and defence lawyers, but so do politicians and the media. Each tells them very differently and only some stories are believed, while others are rejected as implausible leading to conflict. This book explores how these conflicts are carried out and what relationships exist between (often unquestioned) master narratives and (sometimes loud, sometimes silent) counter-narratives? These are questions of central importance for criminology which have thus far received little attention.

This edited collection is international and interdisciplinary in scope, providing empirical insights from such diverse contexts as (social) media, newspapers, comics, police interrogations, social and criminal justice settings, and museum exhibitions. By including contributions froma wide spectrum of academic disciplines and using different methodological approaches, it is of particular interest to students and researchers in criminology and sociology, as well as to scholars of socio-legal studies.        


         

Reviews

“We should not have had to wait so long for the narrative turn to come to criminology when crime is clearly a phenomenon begging for narrative analysis: the human struggle between desire and the law. Narratives help to explicate – describe, locate, retell - events across their temporal unfolding while exposing inferences, contradictions, ellipses in what is known. This brilliantly conceived and executed collection provides a rich combination of narrative analyses and criminological scholarship to powerfully challenge popular and conventional theories of crime while offering more subtle, reliable, and sustainable accounts. This book shifts our focus to look more deeply at what we thought we already knew. An important book.” (Susan S. Silbey, Leon and Anne Goldberg Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Criminal Law & Criminology, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

    Martina Althoff

  • Department of Education & Psychology, University of Siegen, Siegen, Germany

    Bernd Dollinger

  • Department of Social Education, Adult Education and Early Childhood Education (ISEP), TU Dortmund University, Dortmund, Germany

    Holger Schmidt

About the editors

Martina Althoff is Associate Professor of criminology at the University of Groningen, Department of Criminal Law and Criminology, The Netherlands.


Bernd Dollinger is Professor of social pedagogy at the University of Siegen, Department of Educational Science and Psychology, Germany. 


Holger Schmidt is Assistant Professor at the TU Dort­mund University, Department of Social Education, Adult Education and Early Childhood Education, Germany.    




      

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