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Narrative criminology is an emerging approach which seeks to understand how offenders, victims, and policy makers represent crime through spoken and visual mediums. The author in this contribution focusses on a particular aspect of narrative criminology, namely how the stories told by offenders contribute to their desistance from crime or to repeat criminal behaviour. A brief overview of research in narrative criminology is relayed and, drawing on some of the author’s own experiences, the role of in-depth interviewing in producing “rich” narratives is discussed.
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Halsey, M. (2017). Narrative Criminology. In: Deckert, A., Sarre, R. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Australian and New Zealand Criminology, Crime and Justice. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55747-2_42
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