Hidden Bibliographic Details
Other authors / contributors: | Presser, Lois, editor.
Sandberg, Sveinung, editor.
|
ISBN: | 9781479895731 1479895733 9781479876778 1479876771 9781479823413 1479823414
|
Digital file characteristics: | text file
|
Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Print version record.
|
Summary: | Stories are much more than a means of communication-stories help us shape our identities, make sense of the world, and mobilize others to action. In Narrative Criminology, prominent scholars from across the academy and around the world examine stories that animate offending. From an examination of how criminals understand certain types of crime to be less moral than others, to how violent offenders and drug users each come to understand or resist their identity as 'criminals', to how cultural narratives motivate genocidal action, the case studies in this book cover a wide array of crimes and j.
|
Other form: | Print version: Narrative criminology. New York : New York University Press, [2015] 9781479876778
|
Standard no.: | 10.18574/9781479895731.
|