Narrative expressivism: a criminological approach to the expressive function of international criminal justice

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 pote...

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1. VerfasserIn: Bringedal Houge, Anette (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 2019
In: Criminology & criminal justice
Jahr: 2019, Band: 19, Heft: 3, Seiten: 277-293
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Zusammenfassung: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.
ISSN:1748-8966
DOI:10.1177/1748895818787009