The Criminal Narrative Experience of Psychopathic and Personality Disordered Offenders

Goodlad, Katherine; Ιωάννου, Μαρία; Hunter, Melanie

doi:10.1177/0306624x18808433

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“…Elated Hero, Calm Professional, Distressed Revenger and Depressed Victim. This framework has also been replicated in a range of other studies, thus suggesting further support for the importance of the Circumplex of Emotions (Russell, 1997), Narrative Theory (McAdams, 1988) their link with Frye's (1957) Theory of Mythoi, and their association and importance in explaining CNE (Goodlad, Ioannou, & Hunter, 2018;Ioannou, Canter & Youngs, 2017;Ioannou, Synnott, Lowe, & Tzani Pepelasi, 2018).…”

Section: Criminal Narrative Experiencementioning

confidence: 56%

Women Offenders’ Criminal Narrative Experience

Ciesla

Ιωάννου

Hammond

2019

JCP

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Purpose Although there is a vast array of theories on crime, one area that is largely under-represented is that of the actual experience of the offender engaged in criminal acts. The purpose of this paper is to examine the individual and phenomenological experiences of crime amongst women offenders. Design/methodology/approach The sample consisted of 128 women who had committed a criminal offence, with an average age of 36.40 years (SD=11.12). Participants were recruited to take part in the study by answering a questionnaire exploring the emotions and narrative roles they experienced during commission of a crime. From this, participants’ Criminal Narrative Experience (CNE) was determined. Findings Smallest Space Analysis (SSA) analyses revealed that emotional experiences and narrative roles were thematically associated, and when both were subjected to SSA analysis, two main themes of CNE were identified: Avenging Angel and Choiceless Victim. The Choiceless Victim experience was the most representative of women’s experiences in this study. Practical implications The theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed. Future directions for research are also outlined. Originality/value The findings offer an alternative perspective and theoretical framework for examining women offenders’ criminal experiences.

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Section: Criminal Narrative Experiencementioning

confidence: 56%

Women Offenders’ Criminal Narrative Experience

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Ιωάννου

Hammond

2019

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“…Future research could expand this current study by exploring narrative roles. Previous studies on narratives have provided valuable information to understand human behaviours across different offenders (Canter, Kaouri & Ioannou, 2003;Ioannou, 2006;Ioannou, Canter, Youngs & Synnott, 2015;Ioannou, Canter & Youngs, 2017;Goodlad, Ioannou & Hunter, 2018;Ioannou, Synnott, Lowe & Tzani-Pepelasi, 2018;Ciesla, Ioannou & Hammond, 2018).…”

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confidence: 99%

The link between mental health, crime and violence

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Tzani

Pylarinou

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New Ideas in Psychology

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Research investigating the link between mental health, crime and violence often rely on populations that are at a high-risk of violent and criminal behaviour, such as prison inmates and psychiatric patients. As a result of this selection bias, the relationship between mental health, criminal and violent behaviour is significantly over-estimated, with mental health being incorrectly linked with violent and criminal behaviours. This study examines the relationship between mental health, violence and crime in a more representative communitybased sample. One hundred and twenty-one individuals with and without a mental health disorder reported their involvement in crime and completed an aggression questionnaire. The results revealed that there is no statistically significant difference in terms of violence and crime involvement between individuals with a mental health diagnosis and those without.Moreover, the study did not find any statistically significant associations between specific mental health disorders and specific crime offences. The findings suggest that certain mental health disorders do not strongly contribute to crime violence and involvement. Limitations and implications are discussed in detail.

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“…The notion of the four structured narrative themes has been supported by numerous research studies across a variety of contexts and populations that includes arsonists (Canter & Fritzon, 1998), terrorism (Canter, Sarangi, & Youngs, 2014), school shootings (Ioannou, Hammond, & Simpson, 2015b), rioters (Willmott & Ioannou, 2017), psychopathic and personality disordered offenders (Goodlad, Ioannou, & Hunter, 2019), burglary (Yokota & Canter, 2004), contract killing (Yaneva, Ioannou, Hammond, & Synnott, 2018), sexual assaults (Almond & Canter, 2007), homicide (Santtilla, Hakkanen, Canter & Elfgren, 2003), online and offline grooming (Ioannou, Synnott, Reynolds, & Pearson, 2018b), stalking (Canter & Ioannou, 2004), and offenders in general for both adult offenders (Ioannou, Canter, Youngs, & Synnott, 2015a) and young offenders (Ioannou, Synnott, Lowe, & Tzani‐Pepelasi, 2018a).…”

Section: Criminal Narrative Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Applying the criminal narrative experience framework to missing children

Hunt

2020

Journal Invest Psychology

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Over 320,000 missing persons are estimated to go missing annually in United Kingdom due to a variety of intentional and unintentional factors. This article aims to investigate whether the criminal narrative experience framework can be applied to missing persons to acquire a deeper insight into the psychological differences between missing children. Sixty‐one previously missing persons completed a missing experience survey, narrative roles questionnaire, and emotions questionnaire. Data were content analysed and subjected to a non‐metric, multi‐dimensional scaling procedure in the form of smallest space analysis. The results identified four distinct behavioural themes as follows: depressed throwaway victim, distressed pushaway revenger, calm runaway professional and elated fallaway hero. Following a stringent criterion, 88.50% of the sample could be differentiated into one dominant behavioural theme with the remaining 11.50% identified as a hybrid theme. Due to the exploratory nature of the study, additional exploration of the applicability of the framework is required.

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The Criminal Narrative Experience of Psychopathic and Personality Disordered Offenders

Cited by 12 publications

References 50 publications

Women Offenders’ Criminal Narrative Experience

Women Offenders’ Criminal Narrative Experience

The link between mental health, crime and violence

Applying the criminal narrative experience framework to missing children

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