RT Article
T1 Subjects in criminality discourse: on the narrative positioning of young defendants
JF Punishment & society
VO 20
IS 4
SP 477
OP 497
A1 Dollinger, Bernd 1973-
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1743484070
AB This essay locates itself in the context of “narrative criminology”. By means of analyses of the categorization work performed by young defendants in interviews, it is reconstructed how they conceptualize themselves interactively as subjects and/or “perpetrators”. This categorization not only performs a location within the, respectively, told story and the interactive situation of the interview; the interviewees also position themselves in cultural criminal discourse. The analysis of corresponding narrations can therefore contribute to understanding the connection of individual and public narratives on criminality. This is described on the basis of three case examples. With a “sad story”, a heroic story and references to individual cases that received particularly great public attention, the interviewees each develop context-specific categorizations and cultural positionings of “their” criminality and biography.
K1 Defendants
K1 Membership categorization analysis
K1 Narrative Criminology
K1 Positioning
K1 Youth Crime
DO 10.1177/1462474517712977