RT Article
T1 The value of liminal cases in developing a narrative victimology: The case of families of people serving an indeterminate sentence for public protection
JF Criminology & criminal justice
VO 25
IS 4
SP 1142
OP 1160
A1 Mackenzie, Kelly
A1 Annison, Harry 1985-
A1 Straub, Christina
A1 Condry, Rachel
A2 Annison, Harry 1985-
A2 Straub, Christina
A2 Condry, Rachel
LA English
YR 2025
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1933281774
AB This article contributes to the emerging literature on narrative victimology by examining what we will suggest to be a telling ‘liminal case’: families of people sentenced to Imprisonment for Public Protection in England and Wales. We draw on qualitative research conducted with families of people sentenced to Imprisonment for Public Protection to explore how they narrated their experiences and show that while their own predominant narratives do overlap to a considerable degree with commonly accepted victimhood frames, they fail fully to ‘fit’. We argue that such liminal cases have considerable value for the study of narrative victimology: just as ‘central’ or ‘ideal’ cases provide telling insights, the examination of the specific contours of ‘ill fitting’ case studies allows us to trace in more precise detail the boundaries – the extent, the force and the limits – of predominant narratives.
K1 preventive sentencing
K1 narrative victimology
K1 liminal cases
K1 Imprisonment for Public Protection
K1 State harm
DO 10.1177/17488958231174324