RT Article
T1 Narrative expressivism: a criminological approach to the expressive function of international criminal justice
JF Criminology & criminal justice
VO 19
IS 3
SP 277
OP 293
A1 Bringedal Houge, Anette
LA English
YR 2019
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1741678005
AB In response to recent demands to make use of international criminal justice institutions’ archives for social scientific research, this article develops a theoretical approach to international criminal justice called narrative expressivism. Narrative expressivism considers criminal justice as a potent source of information about past crimes - yet also, as a site that impacts on present and future societal understandings of mass violence, promoting a particular structuring of thought. As such, narrative expressivism addresses what kind of knowledge international criminal justice, its institutions and archives, provide the empirical basis for. Theorizing expressivism through a narrative lens, narrative expressivism shifts the emphasis of legal expressivist approaches from facts to stories, from punishment to process, from purpose to function, and from the normative to the descriptive.
K1 International criminal justice
K1 International criminal law
K1 Juridification of knowledge
K1 Legal expressivism
K1 Mass violence
K1 Narrative expressivism
K1 Supranational criminology
DO 10.1177/1748895818787009