What can “Lies” Tell Us about Life? Notes towards a Framework of Narrative Criminology
What can “Lies” Tell Us about Life? Notes towards a Framework of Narrative Criminology
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DOI：
10.1080/10511253.2010.516564
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发表时间：
2010-10
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1.1
通讯作者：
Sveinung Sandberg
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作者：
Sveinung Sandberg
在犯罪学中，即使是涉及广泛实地调查的研究，也在很大程度上依赖于研究参与者自己的陈述。论文中提出的主要问题是：我们如何知道研究参与者是否在说实话，这重要吗？它认为，犯罪学民族志学者一直过于专注于实证主义的真理概念，以及相关的问题，研究参与者是否说实话。对于叙事分析来说，这并不重要。本文将介绍罪犯的访谈数据，以说明在犯罪学叙事方法的成果。无论是真是假，人们讲述的众多故事反映了价值观、身份、文化和社区的复杂本质，并帮助我们理解这些本质。重点将放在罪犯在亚文化和更传统的叙述之间的转变上。这一论点扩展了普雷瑟的叙事犯罪学概念。其结果是一个框架，进一步挑战实证主义和个人主义在当代犯罪学。
In criminology even studies that involve extensive fieldworks rely a great deal on research participants own accounts. The main question raised in the paper is: how do we know if research participants are telling the truth, and does it matter? It argues that criminological ethnographers have been too preoccupied with a positivist notion of truth, and the related question of whether research participants are telling the truth. For narrative analyses, this is not really important. The paper will present interview data from offenders to illustrate the fruitfulness of a narrative approach in criminology. Whether true or false, the multitude of stories people tell reflect, and help us understand, the complex nature of values, identities, cultures, and communities. The emphasis will be on offenders’ shifts between subcultural and more conventional narratives. The argument expands upon Presser’s notion of narrative criminology. The result is a framework that further challenges positivism and individualism in contemporary criminology.