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Conflicting Narratives of Crime and Punishment

Conflicting Narratives of Crime and Punishment

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CriminologyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 3030472353
ISBN13: 9783030472351
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Jul 19 2020
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.14
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

This book illustrates the importance of conflicting narratives in understanding and dealing with crime, based on a variety of cutting-edge research. Offenders tell stories about crime and punishment, as do policemen, judges and defence lawyers, but so do politicians and the media. Each tells them very differently and only some stories are believed, while others are rejected as implausible leading to conflict. This book explores how these conflicts are carried out and what relationships exist between (often unquestioned) master narratives and (sometimes loud, sometimes silent) counter-narratives? These are questions of central importance for criminology which have thus far received little attention.

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