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Evans, Dabney P.
(2024).
Using femicide perpetrators' life-history to identify intervention strategies.
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Evans, Dabney P.
(2024).
Using femicide perpetrators' life history to identify prevention points.
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Sandberg, Sveinung
(2023).
Book Review: Carceral Communities in Latin America: Troubling Prison Worlds in the 21st Century by Darke, S., Garces, C., Duno-Gottberg, L., & Antillano, A.; Prisons, Inmates and Governance in Latin America by Sozzo, M.
Punishment and Society.
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10.1177/14624745231175775.
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Sandberg, Sveinung
(2023).
Narrative data.
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Rodriguez Goyes, David
(2023).
Crímen en América Latina: El rol del estado, el mercado laboral, la familia, la cultura, y la religión.
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Rodriguez Goyes, David
(2023).
Crime na América Latina: Estado, cultura, emprego e familia.
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Rodriguez Goyes, David
(2023).
Crimen, estado, empleo y familia en América Latina.
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Sandberg, Sveinung
(2023).
Narrative analysis (with examples from Latin America) workshop.
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Rodriguez Goyes, David
(2023).
(Neo)Colonialism: Violence, Crime, and Victimhood.
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Sandberg, Sveinung & Rodriguez Goyes, David
(2023).
Towards a life course criminology of Latin America: The Role of the state, labour market, and family in criminal trajectories.
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Sandberg, Sveinung
(2023).
Protecting Parents, Idealizing the Past, Blaming Friends: Life Stories of Men Imprisoned for Violence.
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Life-stories emerge from a wide variety of facts and events in a person’s life and weave a selected few of these together to make meaning in the present. They are crucial for constructing identity and influence action by establishing worldviews and a persona that the narrator will seek to confirm. Based on interviews with six incarcerated Argentinian men, we describe three main themes in these stories: a) Protecting family, especially parents; b) reconstructing an ideal past, and contrasting it with a more cynical present; and c) blaming criminal neighborhoods, friends and girlfriends for their crimes. Combining insights from narrative and psychosocial criminology, we discuss how these themes are intertwined, what function they fulfill, and the identities and masculinities they produce. We emphasize how these life-stories create coherence and unity in otherwise chaotic lives and attempt to counter stigma by defending a self that is under attack.
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Sandberg, Sveinung
(2023).
ASC Workshop: Conducting Qualitative Research within Criminal Justice Settings: Theoretical and Pragmatic Challenges.
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Sandberg, Sveinung
(2023).
What Good Can Stories Do?
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Most stories are not inherently "good" or "bad." They are open-ended, ambiguous and shaped by the context(s) in which they are told. In the social sciences and, in particular, those with research traditions emphasizing social problems, the emphasis has tended to be--for good reasons--on those stories that promote crime and other harm. We take a different approach, emphasizing the good that stories do, primarily for storytellers and their audiences. Based on the stories of Abdi, a former gang member, and stories shared during our research of the past 20 years, we describe how stories do "good" in environments usually associated with "bad." Stories were used to cope with past trauma, create positive experiences in the present moment, encourage harm reduction, and point toward better futures. We conclude that there are good reasons to further emphasize the good that stories can do, for everyone, but not least for marginalized populations.
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Sandberg, Sveinung
(2023).
Narrativ kriminologi, gatekapital, narco-corridos og Michel Foucault.
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Sandberg, Sveinung
(2023).
Towards a life course criminology of Latin America: The role of the State, labour market, and family in criminal trajectories.
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Rodriguez Goyes, David
(2023).
CRIMLA: El rol del estado, el empleo, cultura, la familia, y la religión en el crimen en América Latina.
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Di Marco, Martin Hernan
(2023).
Femicide, offenders and trajectories: identification of prevention points based on biographical narratives of perpetrators.
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Di Marco, Martin Hernan
(2023).
The emotional politics of patriarchy: a phenomenological analysis of femicide perpetration in Latin America
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Di Marco, Martin Hernan & Jiménez-Ribera, Adrián
(2023).
El desistimiento de la violencia de género. Propuesta de una teoría fundamentada en la criminología narrativa.
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Di Marco, Martin Hernan
(2023).
When fieldwork becomes problematic: ethical dilemmas in programs for men who have used violence against women
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Di Marco, Martin Hernan
(2023).
A micro-sociological approach to study violence: CRIMLA experience.
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Di Marco, Martin Hernan
(2023).
The Narratives and Emotional Undercurrent of Femicide: A Study from Latin America .
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Di Marco, Martin Hernan & Evans, Dabeny P.
(2023).
“That was the only option left”: A pooled analysis of self-reported triggers for femicide perpetration.
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Di Marco, Martin Hernan; Evans, Dabeny P. & Borowitz, Brielle
(2023).
"That Was the Only Option Left": A Pooled Analysis of Self-Reported Triggers for Femicide Perpetration.
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Di Marco, Martin Hernan
(2023).
Doing Southern Criminology: the CRIMLA example.
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Sandberg, Sveinung
(2022).
Art and magical beliefs in life stories of Latin-American prisoners.
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Sandberg, Sveinung
(2022).
The counternarratives of imprisoned bodies.
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Sandberg, Sveinung
(2022).
CRIMLA and Narrative Criminology.
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Sandberg, Sveinung
(2022).
Studying hard to reach populations. From the streets of Oslo to prisons in Latin America.
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Sandberg, Sveinung
(2022).
CRIMLA: The role of family, employment, culture, and the state.
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Sandberg, Sveinung
(2022).
Kriminalitet i Latin Amerika.
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Sandberg, Sveinung
(2022).
Life stories, magical beliefs and art in Latin-America.
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Sandberg, Sveinung
(2022).
Going deep, going broad – is it possible? Early experiences from CRIMLA.
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Sandberg, Sveinung
(2022).
Narrativ kriminologi i Latin Amerika: hvilken rolle spiller religion, kunst og musikk? .
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Di Marco, Martin Hernan; Sandberg, Sveinung & Zúñiga Collado, Liza
(2022).
Narrative approach in Criminology: CRIMLA.
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Di Marco, Martin Hernan
(2022).
When it rains, it pours: intimate partner violence before and during COVID-19 lockdown in Metropolitan Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Di Marco, Martin Hernan
(2022).
The default language of violence: analysing life stories of perpetrators of lethal violence in Argentina.
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Di Marco, Martin Hernan
(2022).
Vor, während und nach dem Tod.
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Rodriguez Goyes, David & Sandberg, Sveinung
(2022).
Crime in Latin America: The role of the family, employment, culture and the state.
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Since the early 1990s, there has been a significant growth of criminal activity in Latin America and the security situation for most citizens has worsened. States that are already weak and unstable democracies have been further destabilized and weakened, due to this rise in crime. Even so, there has been relatively little research on crime in Latin America, as compared to many other parts of the world. By developing a culturally and contextually sensitive life-course criminology of Latin America, the newly started project CRIMLA aims to understand the role of family, employment, culture and the state in criminal trajectories and careers in the region. Combining criminological theory, with institutional, cultural and narrative studies, CRIMLA explores the overall research question ‘What is the best way to theorize and understand the criminal careers and life-course trajectories of Latin American offenders? Data are life-story interviews with 300 prisoners (interviewed three times each, 900 interviews) in six Latin American countries: Mexico, Honduras, Columbia, Brazil, Argentina and Chile. The presentation will focus on early findings from the project especially regarding the role of the State, the labor market, family and religion for the life-course trajectories and criminal careers of incarcerated individuals in Latin America.
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Di Marco, Martín Hernán
(2022).
Male Perpetrators’ Accounts of Intimate Femicide: A Global Systematic Review.
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To prevent intimate femicide, the gender-based killing of a woman by a current or past intimate partner, an understanding of perpetrators is necessary. The purpose of this global systematic review was to synthesize the evidence on intimate femicide perpetration with a focus on the perspectives of male perpetrators. We searched ten databases using standardized search terms about femicide and perpetrators. The review had no limits on publication date, geography, study design, or discipline and included articles in English, Spanish and Portuguese. The search resulted in 4,273 unique records; the full text of 112 articles was reviewed. Data were extracted from 14 studies. All studies sampled incarcerated populations. Articles used varied terminology and were grounded in either gender and power, or psychological or social development theory. Most used qualitative approaches (n=12), primarily in-depth interviews (n=11). Methodological challenges included low and missing response rates; data collection challenges; and non-generalizable results by way of methodological approach. Common themes across studies included perpetrator biographical and predisposing factors, self-narratives, and sense-making. Perpetrators rationalized the femicide and deflected responsibility; viewed themselves as the victim while vilifying true victims; and adhered to strict gender norms. This review underscores the importance of and heretofore absences in work focusing on intimate femicide perpetrator’s perspectives across methodologies and disciplines, namely criminology and masculinity studies. Intimate femicide perpetrators are not merely bad actors, instead, they are a manifestation of global patriarchy who pose mortal threats to their female partners. As drivers of intimate femicide, lack of information about perpetrator motivations and rationalizations results in less effective policy and programmatic interventions to prevent dangerous behaviors and actions to save women’s lives.
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Di Marco, Martín Hernán
(2022).
Is lethal violence invisible to the eyes of the offenders? Narratives from the Argentina and Chile.
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Homicide is among the most serious crimes and, consequently, it is punished with some of the longest prison sentences. The analysis of the narratives of perpetrators has shed some light on how offenders manage guilt, understand violence, and rationalize the event. This paper draws upon field data (narrative interviews and lifelines drawn by participants) from CRIMLA Project. By analyzing the life stories of an heterogeneous sample of homicide perpetrators in Argentina and Chile, this study shows that death and inflicted harm is downplayed in the reconstructions of most perpetrators, illustrating a tendency to invisibilize and ignore the victims themselves. Contrastingly, offenders justified and excused the harm caused to the victims’ relatives, evaluated the impact of their action on their own families and friends and, mainly, focused their stories on the self-provoked harm on their own lives as a consequence of being imprisoned. This narrative pattern reveals the ways in which these actors evaluate lethal violence, highlighting the impact on their social circle and downplay its effect on the victims. The outweigh of incarceration over violence is illustrated by the fact that in their lifelines prison is predominantly labeled as a turning-point, over the crime itself. This paper discusses how violence is rationalized, the possibility of redemption narratives, and the hegemonic stories which condition how killing is signified. More info: https://www.narrcrimgenoa2020.info/
