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Generativity or ‘giving back’ is regarded as a common life
stage, occurring for many around middle age. For the first time,
this book offers qualitative research on the lives and social
relationships of older imprisoned women. In-depth interviews with
29 female prisoners in the south-eastern United States show that
older women both engage in generative behaviours in prison and also
wish to do so upon their release. As prisoners continue to age, the
US finds itself at a crossroads on prison reform, with potential
decarceration beginning with older prisoners. The COVID-19 pandemic
has led many to consider how to thrive under difficult
circumstances and in stressing the resilience of older incarcerated
women, this book envisions what this could look like.
Explores the role of stories in criminal culture and justice
systems around the world 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 justice systems throughout the
world. The contributors uncover the narratives at the center of
their essays through qualitative interviews, ethnographic
fieldwork, and written archives, and they scrutinize narrative
structure and meaning by analyzing genres, plots, metaphors, and
other components of storytelling. In doing so, they reveal the
cognitive, ideological, and institutional mechanisms by which
narratives promote harmful action. Finally, they consider how
offenders' narratives are linked to and emerge from those of
conventional society or specific subcultures. Each chapter reveals
important insights and elements for the development of a framework
of narrative criminology as an important approach for understanding
crime and criminal justice. An unprecedented and landmark
collection, Narrative Criminology opens the door for an exciting
new field of study on the role of stories in motivating and
legitimizing harm.
Narrative criminology is an approach to studying crime and other
harm that puts stories first. It investigates how such stories are
composed, when and why they are told and what their effects are.
This edited collection explores the methodological challenges of
analysing offenders' stories, but pushes the boundaries of the
field to consider the narratives of victims, bystanders and
criminal justice professionals. This Handbook reflects the
diversity of methodological approaches employed in narrative
criminology. Chapters discuss the practicalities of listening to
and observing narratives through ethnographic and observational
research, and offer accessible guides to using diverse
methodological approaches for listening to and interpreting
narrative data. With contributions from established and emerging
scholars from all over the world, and from diverse fields including
politics, psychology, sociology and criminology, the Handbook
reflects the cutting edge of narrative methodologies for
understanding crime, control and victimisation and is an essential
resource for academics studying and teaching on narrative
criminology.
Narrative criminology is an approach to studying crime and other
harm that puts stories first. It investigates how such stories are
composed, when and why they are told and what their effects are.
This edited collection explores the methodological challenges of
analysing offenders' stories, but pushes the boundaries of the
field to consider the narratives of victims, bystanders and
criminal justice professionals. This Handbook reflects the
diversity of methodological approaches employed in narrative
criminology. Chapters discuss the practicalities of listening to
and observing narratives through ethnographic and observational
research, and offer accessible guides to using diverse
methodological approaches for listening to and interpreting
narrative data. With contributions from established and emerging
scholars from all over the world, and from diverse fields including
politics, psychology, sociology and criminology, the Handbook
reflects the cutting edge of narrative methodologies for
understanding crime, control and victimisation and is an essential
resource for academics studying and teaching on narrative
criminology.
Harm takes shape in and through what is suppressed, left out, or
taken for granted. This book is a guide to understanding and
uncovering what is left unsaid-whether concealed or silenced,
presupposed or excluded. Drawing on a variety of real-world
examples, narrative criminologist Lois Presser outlines how to
determine what or who is excluded from textual materials. With
strategies that can be added to the tool kits of social researchers
and activists alike, Unsaid provides a richly layered approach to
analyzing and dismantling the power structures that both create and
arise from what goes without saying.
2014 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Criminologists
are primarily concerned with the analysis of actions that violate
existing laws. But a growing number have begun analyzing crimes as
actions that inflict harm, regardless of the applicability of legal
sanctions. Even as they question standard definitions of crime as
law-breaking, scholars of crime have few theoretical frameworks
with which to understand the etiology of harmful action. In Why We
Harm, Lois Presser scrutinizes accounts of acts as diverse as
genocide, environmental degradation, war, torture, terrorism,
homicide, rape, and meat-eating in order to develop an original
theoretical framework with which to consider harmful actions and
their causes. In doing so, this timely book presents a general
theory of harm, revealing the commonalities between actions that
impose suffering and cause destruction. Harm is built on stories in
which the targets of harm are reduced to one-dimensional
characters—sometimes a dangerous foe, sometimes much more benign,
but still a projection of our own concerns and interests. In our
stories of harm, we are licensed to do the harmful deed and, at the
same time, are powerless to act differently. Chapter by chapter,
Presser examines statements made by perpetrators of a wide variety
of harmful actions. Appearing vastly different from one another at
first glance, Presser identifies the logics they share that
motivate, legitimize, and sustain them. From that point, she maps
out strategies for reducing harm.
Harm takes shape in and through what is suppressed, left out, or
taken for granted. This book is a guide to understanding and
uncovering what is left unsaid-whether concealed or silenced,
presupposed or excluded. Drawing on a variety of real-world
examples, narrative criminologist Lois Presser outlines how to
determine what or who is excluded from textual materials. With
strategies that can be added to the tool kits of social researchers
and activists alike, Unsaid provides a richly layered approach to
analyzing and dismantling the power structures that both create and
arise from what goes without saying.
Stories have persuasive powers: they can influence how a person
thinks and acts. Inside Story explores the capacity of stories to
direct our thinking, heighten our emotions, and thereby motivate
people to do harm to others and to tolerate harm done by others.
From terrorist violence to "mere" complacency with
institutionalized harm, the book weds case study to
cross-disciplinary theory. It builds upon timely work in the field
of narrative criminology and provides a thorough analysis of how
stories can promote or inhibit harmful action. By offering a
sociological analysis of the emotional yet intersubjective
experience of dangerous stories, the book fleshes out the
perplexing mechanics of cultural influence on crime and other forms
of harm.
Stories have persuasive powers: they can influence how a person
thinks and acts. Inside Story explores the capacity of stories to
direct our thinking, heighten our emotions, and thereby motivate
people to do harm to others and to tolerate harm done by others.
From terrorist violence to "mere" complacency with
institutionalized harm, the book weds case study to
cross-disciplinary theory. It builds upon timely work in the field
of narrative criminology and provides a thorough analysis of how
stories can promote or inhibit harmful action. By offering a
sociological analysis of the emotional yet intersubjective
experience of dangerous stories, the book fleshes out the
perplexing mechanics of cultural influence on crime and other forms
of harm.
Explores the role of stories in criminal culture and justice
systems around the world 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 justice systems throughout the
world. The contributors uncover the narratives at the center of
their essays through qualitative interviews, ethnographic
fieldwork, and written archives, and they scrutinize narrative
structure and meaning by analyzing genres, plots, metaphors, and
other components of storytelling. In doing so, they reveal the
cognitive, ideological, and institutional mechanisms by which
narratives promote harmful action. Finally, they consider how
offenders' narratives are linked to and emerge from those of
conventional society or specific subcultures. Each chapter reveals
important insights and elements for the development of a framework
of narrative criminology as an important approach for understanding
crime and criminal justice. An unprecedented and landmark
collection, Narrative Criminology opens the door for an exciting
new field of study on the role of stories in motivating and
legitimizing harm.
Criminologists are primarily concerned with the analysis of actions
that violate existing laws. But a growing number have begun
analyzing crimes as actions that inflict harm, regardless of the
applicability of legal sanctions. Even as they question standard
definitions of crime as law-breaking, scholars of crime have few
theoretical frameworks with which to understand the etiology of
harmful action. In Why We Harm, Lois Presser scrutinizes accounts
of acts as diverse as genocide, environmental degradation, war,
torture, terrorism, homicide, rape, and meat-eating in order to
develop an original theoretical framework with which to consider
harmful actions and their causes. In doing so, this timely book
presents a general theory of harm, revealing the commonalities
between actions that impose suffering and cause destruction. Harm
is built on stories in which the targets of harm are reduced to
one-dimensional characters-sometimes a dangerous foe, sometimes
much more benign, but still a projection of our own concerns and
interests. In our stories of harm, we are licensed to do the
harmful deed and, at the same time, are powerless to act
differently. Chapter by chapter, Presser examines statements made
by perpetrators of a wide variety of harmful actions. Appearing
vastly different from one another at first glance, Presser
identifies the logics they share that motivate, legitimize, and
sustain them. From that point, she maps out strategies for reducing
harm.
In this groundbreaking work, Lois Presser investigates the life
stories of men who have perpetrated violence. She applies insights
from across the academy to in-depth interviews with men who shared
their accounts of how they became the people we most fear--those
who rape, murder, assault, and rob, often repeatedly. "Been a Heavy
Life" provides the discipline of criminology with two crucial
frameworks: one for critically evaluating the construction of
offenders' own stories, and one for grasping the cultural
meta-narratives that legitimize violence. For social scientists
generally, this book offers a vivid demonstration of just how
dynamic and contingent self-narratives are.
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