RT Article
T1 Offense Narrative Roles of Turkish Offenders
JF International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology
VO 66
IS 12
SP 1237
OP 1262
A1 Zeyrek-Rios, Emek Yuce
A2 Canter, David 1944-
A2 Youngs, Donna
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1811759564
AB The study of offense narratives emphasizes the agency of the offender which brings psychology closer to law. As an effort to create a standardized and quantitative method to evaluate offender narratives, Youngs and Canter developed the Narrative Roles Questionnaire (NRQ) based on the content analyses of the crime narratives of offenders in UK prisons. The current study aims to investigate the applicability of offense narrative roles framework among Turkish offenders. The application of the offense narrative roles model to a non-Western country is the first step toward the acceptance of criminal narrative theory as a universal explanation of criminal behavior. A translation of the NRQ was administered to 468 Turkish male inmates who have committed a wide range of offenses from fraud to murder. The results of an MDS analysis yielded four roles, namely Professional, Revenger, Hero, and Victim, echoing the original formulation proposed by Youngs and Canter. The reliability coefficients of scales derived for these roles were all at desired levels. The results support the applicability of the NRQ framework in a non-English context.
K1 offense narrative roles model
K1 offense roles
K1 narrative theory
K1 Turkish offenders
K1 Narrative Roles Questionnaire
DO 10.1177/0306624X211010285