RT Article
T1 Talking good: analysing narratives of desistance in Norway
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 62
IS 4
SP 914
OP 930
A1 Todd-Kvam, John
A2 Todd-Kvam, Mari
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1807579794
AB Despite significant research interest in Norwegian penality, there remains much to be learned about how people in Norway experience life during and after punishment. This article is one of the first to explore the lived experience of desistance as narrated by Norwegian desisters. We analyse ‘small stories’ that either opened up or frustrated the co-creation of change, showing how desistance develops (or is stymied) at a micro level. Our analytical framework helped us understand our informants as active subjects navigating a complex terrain of psychological, relational and systemic processes. Informants described a long-term, unfinalized desistance process, leading in some cases to an extended experience of liminality and welfare supplication.
K1 Desistance
K1 narrative analysis
K1 Scandinavian exceptionalism
K1 Norway
K1 Liminality
DO 10.1093/bjc/azab087