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THE EMERALD HANDBOOK OF NARRATIVE CRIMINOLOGY

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THE EMERALD HANDBOOK OF NARRATIVE CRIMINOLOGY

Edited By

JENNIFER FLEETWOOD

Goldsmiths, University of London, UK

LOIS PRESSER

University of Tennessee, USA

SVEINUNG SANDBERG

University of Oslo, Norway

THOMAS UGELVIK

University of Oslo, Norway

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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List of Contributors

Jan C. Andersen, University of Oslo, Norway.

Jan is a Scientific Assistant at the University of Oslo, Norway. He has a Masters in Criminology from the University of Oslo. His research focusses on IS propaganda on the Internet and the everyday religion of young Muslims.

Dan Jerome S. Barrera, Negros Oriental State University, Philippines.

Dan Jerome is affiliated with the College of Criminal Justice Education of Negros Oriental State University – Main, Bayawan-Sta. Catalina, and Siaton Campuses in Negros Oriental, Philippines. He is interested in the power of narratives to influence actions among criminal justice clients and agents.

Floretta Boonzaier, University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Floretta is Professor in Psychology at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. She is Codirector of the Hub for Decolonial Feminist Psychologies in Africa and she works and teaches in feminist, critical, social and decolonial psychologies.

Avi Brisman (MFA, JD, PhD) is an Associate Professor in the School of Justice Studies at Eastern Kentucky University, USA, an Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Justice at Queensland University of Technology, Australia, and a Conjoint Associate Professor in the Newcastle Law School at the University of Newcastle, Australia.

David Canter, Emeritus Professor at the University of Liverpool, UK, has published widely in many aspects of applied social psychology over the past half century. He is best known for developing Environmental Psychology in the 1970s and Investigative Psychology a quarter of a century ago.

Eamonn Carrabine is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex, UK. His books include Crime in Modern Britain (co-authored, 2002), Power, Discourse and Resistance: A Genealogy of the Strangeways Prison Riot (2004), Crime, Culture and the Media (2008) and Crime and Social Theory (2017).

Alayna Colburn is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work at Kansas State University, USA. She also serves as a Junior Research Scientist for New York University. Her research focusses on domestic violence, policing and the military. Her dissertation examines domestic violence perpetrated by soldiers post deployment.

Elizabeth A. Cook is an ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, UK. Before that she worked at the University of Manchester and University of Sheffield. Her research interests include cultural victimology, victim stories and the experiences of bereaved families in the aftermath of violence.

Simon Copeland is a Doctoral Researcher at Lancaster University, UK. Part of the Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats, his research explores kin and peer networks and militancy. His article applying narrative approaches to militants' self-accounts won the 2018 Society for Terrorism Research best student paper award.

Heith Copes is Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA. His primary interest is in understanding the decision-making process and identity construction of people who engage in crime and drug use.

Bernd Dollinger is a Professor of Pedagogy and Social Work at the University of Siegen (Germany). He completed his academic career at the Universities of Bamberg and Freiburg (Germany). His approach to criminological research revolves around professional, political and subjective accounts which, in their interplay, constitute crime as a cultural phenomenon.

Xianliang Dong is a PhD Candidate in Chinese and History of the City University of Hong Kong, China. His research specialises in the medical history of China and Hong Kong, with broader interests in performance studies and dramaturgy. His articles have appeared in Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in Social Studies and Router: A Journal of Cultural Studies.

Rod Earle is Senior Lecturer at The Open University, UK. Rod has worked as a printer, in youth justice and currently enjoys life as an academic. He is a member of the British Society of Criminology and in 2019 helped to establish the BSC Race Matters Network.

Jennifer Fleetwood is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK. Before that she worked at the University of Leicester and the University of Kent. Her book, Drug Mules: Women in the International Cocaine Trade, won the 2015 British Society of Criminology Book Prize.

Selina Heppchen is an Academic Assistant at the University of Siegen (Germany). Her research interest involves subjective perceptions of crime, their interactive production and the communication of social categories. In her recent publications, she analyses youth crime as a social phenomenon based on interpersonal ascriptions.

Andy Hochstetler is Professor of Sociology at Iowa State University, USA. He mainly writes on self-conception and the choice to offend. Currently, he is working on two grant projects with the US Department of Agriculture and National Institute of Justice funding.

Kristen Lee Hourigan is Assistant Professor in the Sociology Department at California State University, Los Angeles. Her work bridges the subfields of victimology and social psychology, focussing upon the transformation of emotion and identity following traumatic loss.

Alice Ievins is a Research Associate at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, UK. Her research to date concerns the relationship between punishment and moral communication, with a particular focus on men convicted of sex offences.

Nicolò Knechtlin, licensed psychologist and criminologist, has worked in therapeutic communities hosting mentally ill offenders, and is currently working as psychologist in the field of human resources. He is also currently conducting a research project on Italian soccer ‘ultras’.

Don L. Kurtz is Professor of Social Work and the Social Work Program Coordinator at Kansas State University, USA. His research interests include police stress, youth violence, police storytelling and narrative development, and his work is published in many highly regarded criminology and criminal justice journals.

Jody Miller is Distinguished Professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University, USA, and Fellow of the American Society of Criminology. She is author of One of the Guys: Girls, Gangs and Gender and Getting Played: African American Girls, Urban Inequality, and Gendered Violence.

Anna Offit is an Assistant Professor of Law at SMU Dedman School of Law. She previously worked as a Research Fellow at New York University School of Law. She holds a PhD and MA in Anthropology from Princeton University, an MPhil in Social Anthropological Analysis from the University of Cambridge and a JD from the Georgetown University Law Center.

Olga Petintseva is a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Research Foundation – Flanders, affiliated with Ghent University and Free University Brussels, Belgium. Olga's expertise is located at the intersection of criminology, migration studies and sociolinguistics. Her most recent book Youth, Justice and Migration: Discursive Harms was published in 2018 by Palgrave Macmillan.

Lois Presser is Professor of Sociology at the University of Tennessee, USA. Her research concerns narrative, harm, identity and restorative justice. She is the author of Been a Heavy Life: Stories of Violent Men, Why We Harm, Narrative Criminology (coedited with Sveinung Sandberg) and Inside Story: How Narratives Drive Mass Harm.

Jared Ragland is the Visual Media and Outreach Coordinator for the Department of Art & Art History at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA. He served as a White House Photo Editor under the Bush and Obama Administrations. He has published with National Geographic books and has exhibited his fine art work internationally.

David Rowlands is a Doctoral Student at the University of Huddersfield, UK. He has worked for many years in drug rehabilitation.

Sveinung Sandberg is Professor in Criminology at the University of Oslo, Norway. His research focusses on processes of marginalisation, violence, masculinity, illegal drugs, radicalisation and social movements often using a narrative or discourse analytical approach.

Sébastien Tutenges is Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology at Lund University, Sweden. He completed this chapter whilst a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law at the University of Oslo, Norway. His research is broadly concerned with intoxication, drug dealing, fights and terrorism.

Thomas Ugelvik is Professor in Criminology at the University of Oslo, Norway. He is the author of Power and Resistance in Prison (Palgrave, 2014), and the founding coeditor of Incarceration: An International Journal of Imprisonment, Detention and Coercive Confinement (Sage, first volume 2020).

Alfredo Verde, a psychologist and psychoanalyst, applies a narrative approach to criminology, from offender narratives, to social control narratives (including criminological ones). He is currently Professor of Criminology at the University of Genoa, Italy. He has translated into Italian Gadd & Jefferson's An Introduction to Psychosocial Criminology (Milan: Franco Angeli, 2016) and is author of several contributions in the field, including a criminological manual in Italian.

Sandra Walklate is the Eleanor Rathbone Chair of Sociology at the University of Liverpool, UK, and conjoint Chair of Criminology at Monash University, Australia. She is internationally recognised for her work on criminal victimisation generally and more recently on victimisation and war. Her forthcoming work includes, A Criminology of War? with Ross McGarry.

Carmen Wickramagamage has been teaching English at the Department of English, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, since 1986. She has taught briefly as Visiting Assistant Professor and Visiting Professor at Colleges in the US, including Carleton College, Holy Cross College, Whitman College and Bowdoin College.

Donna Youngs is Reader in Investigative Psychology at the University of Huddersfield, UK. Her early work examining the psychological processes differentiation styles of criminal action led her to develop a framework for eliciting and distinguishing the psychological narrative forms that underpin a person's life story and identity.

Xiaoye Zhang is a recent PhD graduate of Criminology from City University of Hong Kong, China. Zhang obtained her MA degree of Applied Theatre from Goldsmith College, University of London, where she began working with incarcerated persons and prison officers. Prison sociology with a focus on arts in prison is Zhang's current research area. Zhang is currently based at the Criminal Justice Department of East China University of Political Science and Law.