Creative disruption: Edward Bunker, carceral habitus, and the criminological value of fiction

Drawing on Edward Bunker’s semi-autobiographical novels, this article argues for the criminological value of fiction. Drawing inspiration and extending core insights from “narrative criminology” and “popular criminology”, we posit that novels and other creative sources can disrupt scholarly commonse...

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Authors: Page, Joshua (Author) ; Goodmann, Philip Russell (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2020
In: Theoretical criminology
Year: 2020, Volume: 24, Issue: 2, Pages: 222-240
Online Access: Volltext (Resolving-System)
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Keywords:
Bourdieu
Habitus
Prison literature
Prisons
Subjectivity