Discursive Harms

Petintseva, Olga

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“…Stories can inspire and motivate actions, including harmful ones (Presser 2009). Whilst interviews with "offenders" remain an important mainstay of the discipline, narrative criminologists have also analysed public political discourse (Tognato 2015), offenders' written texts, such as manifestos (Presser 2012;Sandberg 2013), online activist testimonies (Fleetwood, forthcoming), and school reports (Petintseva 2018). Narrative criminologists have also explored stories beyond texts, for example, in images and photos as narrative devices (Carrabine 2016;Copes and Ragland 2016), as well as the narrative potential of objects (Ugelvik, forthcoming).…”

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“…Like all ethnography, it offers in depth understanding into participants' lives, however attention to narrative is especially significant for research into criminal justice settings where legal and administrative language is especially significant. We direct the interested reader to narrative ethnographies of men's imprisonment (McKendy 2006;Ugelvik 2015), prosecutor's narratives (Offit 2017), narratives of immigration detention workers (Ugelvik 2016), narratives in the Youth Justice system (Petintseva 2018) and victims' narratives (Root, Ferrell and Palacios 2013;Walklate et al 2018). All are exemplary of the importance of studying narrative in settings shaped by policy.…”

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Narrative Criminology and Ethnography

Fleetwood¹,

Sandberg²

2021

The Oxford Handbook of Ethnographies of Crime and Criminal Justice

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This chapter outlines how criminological researchers can attend to narrative as part of their ethnographic practice. Attention to the narrativity of speech, conversations, and texts pertaining to both individuals and groups has the potential to enrich ethnographic research on crime, criminal justice, and victims/survivors. It accentuates that stories told in field, between research participants—and to the researcher—are paramount for most ethnographic fieldwork. Ethnographers can draw much from contemporary developments in narrative criminology. We outline two insights in particular: talk is a kind of social action that does things and, second, stories motivate and guide behaviour. We review research in narrative criminology to demonstrate the importance of stories for understanding crime and justice: they delineate insiders and outsiders, convey identity, supply know-how, and display criminal capital. Vengeance and violence are also a way to tell or enact stories. This chapter also explores questions of methodology and discusses some practical issues such as how to invite storytelling and how to use recording devices in the field. We conclude with some thoughts about future directions for narrative criminology and ethnography.

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