“…But, they assert, '[t]he idea that narratives or stories themselves shape future action has not been exploited for the sake of understanding criminal behavior ' (2015: 1). Building on their previous work (see, for example, Presser 2009Presser , 2010Presser , 2012Sandberg 2010Sandberg , 2013, they propose a narrative criminology-'an inquiry based on the view of stories as instigating, sustaining, or effecting desistance from harmful action ' (2015: 1). Presser and Sandberg (2015: 11) argue that:…”