The creative use of the ADHD diagnosis in probationers' self-narratives

Berger, Nichlas Permin

doi:10.1080/14043858.2015.1024945

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“…She accordingly makes sense of her experiences on the criminal/drug‐using scene through this very specific lens, and makes her desistance path connected to continued medicalisation. Similar to other studies (Berger ), the effects of prescription drugs here seem to validate the neurological basis of a more socially accepted medical narrative. Moreover, ‘Linda’ also identifies how receiving the diagnosis for her produced a sense of ‘everything falling into place’.…”

Section: Adhd Narratives By Female Ex‐offenderssupporting

confidence: 87%

“…That is, ADHD did not form a part of the interview schedule for the original study, and it was a discourse that was completely absent in the English data. This is noteworthy, and feeds into a key point raised by previous scholars in the field: how individuals describe and frame their behaviour will depend on what narratives and discourses are available to them (Berger ). In the English data, narratives relating to conditions such as border personality disorder and emotionally unstable personality disorder were drawn on, which may reflect a more prominent role of these discourses in the English criminal justice setting.…”

Section: The Stories Across Borders Studymentioning

confidence: 88%

“…However, having spent a couple of years in prison, she had a range of viewpoints on the role of ADHD diagnoses for women in the Swedish criminal justice system. Her narrative gives support to how embedded discourses of ADHD within the Prison and Probation Service (Berger ) may open up individual opportunities for drawing on this medically‐orientated narrative in this particular setting. ‘Malin’ here responds to the question as to whether she had the experience of going through an ADHD assessment in a criminal justice setting:

Malin : Do you know what I've actually battled a lot with people about this, because it feels like, within the Kriminalvården, and sure it could be the case that many have ADHD, I don't say that isn't the case, but it's just how Swedish society has become, I mean, like as soon as someone makes the slightest, you know, deviant, then it's like ‘yup diagnosis’.…”

Section: Adhd Narratives By Female Ex‐offendersmentioning

confidence: 94%

“…Privilege is accordingly given to certain forms of knowledge and practices, guided by cognitive‐behavioural models. In turn, these models emphasise individual responsibility, self‐control, and measurable results, creating contemporary therapeutic cultures that ‘valorises help‐seeking’ (Berger , p.124). Nilsson (, p.35) points out how these discourses very much echo the ‘hyper‐positivism’ that is prominent in some branches of the natural and medical sciences, relying on undertheorised views of the social world.…”

Section: Cultural Social and Institutional Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Critical Reflections on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in the Criminal Justice System: Swedish Female Ex‐Offenders’ Narratives of Diagnosis

Österman

2018

Howard J Crime Justice

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Recent years have seen an emerging link between attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and criminal behaviour. Sweden is a leader in this field of research, and high levels of ADHD are reported in the Swedish criminal justice system. The aetiology of the condition, however, remains unclear and there is definite ambivalence in the literature regarding both diagnosis and treatments. Offering a unique qualitative perspective on the role of ADHD diagnoses, this article critically explores female first‐hand narratives of ADHD in the Swedish criminal justice system. A number of diagnostic functions are proposed; (i) on the individual level – via a rationalised explanatory framework of behaviour; (ii) on a societal level – with attention effectively being deflected from social and environmental contexts; (iii) on an institutional level – linked to the medicalised management of offender populations, and lastly; (iv) on a broader market level – including huge pharmaceutical interests in a relentlessly expanding ‘treatment’ market.

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Section: Adhd Narratives By Female Ex‐offenderssupporting

confidence: 87%

Section: The Stories Across Borders Studymentioning

confidence: 88%

Section: Adhd Narratives By Female Ex‐offendersmentioning

confidence: 94%

Section: Cultural Social and Institutional Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Critical Reflections on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in the Criminal Justice System: Swedish Female Ex‐Offenders’ Narratives of Diagnosis

Österman

2018

Howard J Crime Justice

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“…The ADHD diagnosis provides a model for understanding and explaining suffering and adverse experiences in life [75]. Receiving an ADHD diagnose has even been experienced as a relief and a sense of social belonging [76]. The collective characteristics associated with the diagnosis might provide a sense of identity that is perceived as culturally legitimate [76].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Parental Discussions Online through the Medical Discourse-lens

Lundin¹,

Erlandsson²

2017

J Child Dev Disord

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In the present study the research objective was to gain insights into parental communication on an open Internet forum where parents had the opportunity to discuss issues related to ADHD. In order for clinicians to help troubled children brought to the health clinic it may be important to learn more about the life situations of these troubled families as treatment options can require complex interventions for the whole family. Our aim was thus to go beyond the neurobiological medical model of ADHD, which does not take into account contextual factors. In today's society specialized online discussion forums are available for parents who seek support for various difficulties that arise in the family. The online forums are sources of research data. As research tools we used the narrative psychological approach for the analysis of 72 online narratives. These narratives provided support for that the parents embraced medical explanations for the difficulties experienced when raising children, despite obvious challenging life circumstances, such as for example being a single parent without social support. Even very young children had been given serious psychiatric medical diagnoses such as ADHD, Bipolar disorder, Mood disorders and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Some of them had been diagnosed with more than one of these disorders. The complexity of the parental narratives in the present study indicates that the neurobiological model is not sufficient enough to form the basis of a personalized and comprehensive care for vulnerable families.

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Narrative Criminology as Critical Criminology

Presser

Sandberg

2019

Crit Crim

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Narrative criminology is a theoretical paradigm rooted in a view of stories as influencing harmful actions and arrangements. Narrative criminologists explore the storied bases of a variety of harms and also consider the narratives with which actors resist patterns of harm. We submit that narrative criminology is an apt and powerful framework for research in critical criminology because narrative criminology is fundamentally concerned with harm or resistance to harm; underscores collective involvement in the genesis of harm; illuminates the dynamism of harm and therefore the possibilities of resistance; and compels a reflexive stance on one's research. Stories are recounted at multiple levels of social life. They are self-consciously and habitually generated, structured and creative, populated by things said and things not said. The complexities of stories are a good match for the complexities of harm, crime, and justice in late modernity-core concerns of critical criminology.

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The creative use of the ADHD diagnosis in probationers' self-narratives

Cited by 11 publications

References 42 publications

Critical Reflections on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in the Criminal Justice System: Swedish Female Ex‐Offenders’ Narratives of Diagnosis

Critical Reflections on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in the Criminal Justice System: Swedish Female Ex‐Offenders’ Narratives of Diagnosis

Parental Discussions Online through the Medical Discourse-lens

Narrative Criminology as Critical Criminology

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