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 …

Most leading crime theories and crime‐control policies are based on the assumption that
people are self‐interested. But recent work in a variety of fields has challenged this …

Starting from the premise that experience is narratively constituted and actions are oriented
through the self as the protagonist in an evolving story, narrative criminology investigates …

Violence features in human life, not only as actual physical confrontation but also as stories.
Stories of violence are particularly important in violence-prone subcultures and among those …

Many people believe that gangs are made up of violent thugs who are in and out of jail, and
who are hyper-masculine and heterosexual. In The Gang's All Queer, Vanessa Panfil …

Considerable theoretical and empirical inquiry has focused on the role codes for violence
play in generating crime. A large part of this work has examined the attitudes and codes …

Since the late 1990s, the Korean pop-culture wave has had a huge impact, achieving
immense popularity and sustaining a global community of consumers and fans. In …

This qualitative ethnographic study sought to gain insight into how participants in the
Bondage/Discipline/Sadomasochism (BDSM) community negotiate and maintain …

The Dark Triad is represented by three interrelated personality characteristics thought to
share a “dark core”—that is, to be associated with a range of negative outcomes. We …

Goldstein posited that drugs and violence are related in three primary ways, namely,
psychopharmacologically, systemically, and economic compulsively. Although Goldstein's …