Classical Literature for the Criminal Justice Classroom

Bowman, Blythe A.

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“…In contrast, the idea of criminology and literature has only recently been conceptualized by the likes of Steven Engel (2003), Blythe Alison Bowman (2009), and Afra Saleh Alshiban (2012). To clarify the distinction between "criminology and literature" and "law and literature," just consider the example of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, a classic in the law and literature movement.…”

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“…Second, the subject of criminology and literature is related to yet distinct from the law and literature movement, which has garnered attention for many years from scholars such as James Boyd White (1973), Ronald Dworkin (1982), and Richard Weisberg (1992). In contrast, the idea of criminology and literature has only recently been conceptualized by the likes of Steven Engel (2003), Blythe Alison Bowman (2009), and Afra Saleh Alshiban (2012). To clarify the distinction between “criminology and literature” and “law and literature,” just consider the example of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice , a classic in the law and literature movement.…”

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Shakespeare and criminology

Wilson

2014

Crime, Media, Culture

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This paper suggests that Shakespeare's plays offer an embryonic version of criminology, and that they remain a valuable resource for the field, both a theoretical and a pedagogical resource. On the one hand, for criminology scholars, Shakespeare can open up new avenues of theoretical consideration, for the criminal events depicted in his plays reflect complex philosophical debates about crime and justice, making interpretations of those events inherently theoretical; reading a passage from Shakespeare can be the first step in building a new theory of criminology. On the other hand, for criminology students, Shakespeare can initiate and sustain an intellectual transition that is fundamental to their professionalization, namely the transition from what I call a "simplistic" to a "skeptical" model of criminology. For this reason, I recommend that criminologists try what the Shakespearean scholar Julia Reinhard Lupton has called "thinking with Shakespeare." Thinking with Shakespeare is particularly valuable for criminologists because Shakespeare coded ancient philosophical ideas about crime and justice into the words and deeds of his characters: interpreting the drama takes us into the philosophy, and the philosophy provides us with the conceptual equipment for a better criminology.Shortly after receiving my PhD in English, having written a dissertation on Shakespeare, I was hired to teach rhetoric and writing classes in-of all places-a Department of Criminal Justice. Writing had recently become a priority in the department, I was told, because employers in our area wanted their workers to be better writers. There were, I came to understand, two key reasons for this request. First, writing was probably not the sexy, sensational, highly televised aspect of the field that inspired students to pursue a career in criminal justice, but it would be a major part of their jobs, a skill set without which they would be simply unemployable, whether they saw themselves working out on the street, in an office, or on a campus. Second, given the always intricate nature of crime and justice, our cops, officers, agents, counselors, advocates, lawyers, and criminologists need to know how to interpret complex problems, and academic writing is, at its

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Section: Criminology and Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Criminology and Literaturementioning

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Shakespeare and criminology

Wilson

2014

Crime, Media, Culture

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“…Criminological studies in the literature related to segmentation of war crimes (Ruggiero, 2018), crime and justice (Wilson, 2014), white-collar crime (Ahmadi, 2019a), crime with violence and sadism behavior (Alshiban, 2012), police and context crime sciencefiction (Wood, 2019), literature and learning criminology (Pérez, Linde, Molas-Castells, & Fuertes-Alpiste, 2019;Bowman, 2009;Engel, 2003;Frauley, 2010), author and criminology (Burney, 2012). Among these criminological and literary studies, no researcher from Indonesia has linked criminal psychology and literature.…”

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Study of Criminal Psychology in Indonesian Literature

Ahmadi¹

2022

Int. J. Criminol. Sociol.

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This criminal psychology research aims to explore the criminal behavior contained in modern Indonesian literature. This is based on the fact that literature is considered as a creative work that represents elements of criminal behavior that can be viewed from the perspective of criminal psychology. The research method used was qualitative by referring to the interpretation of the text in depth. The data used in the study were literary texts which represent criminal behavior. Data analysis techniques were carried out through the stages of identification, classification, reduction, analysis, exposure, and verification. The result showed that criminal behavior in Indonesian literature is related to corruption, sexual crime, and transnational crime.

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