Abstract

Crime is both storyable and storied, and narrative analysis is thus essential for criminologists. In this article I present four different ways of doing narrative analysis: thematic, structural, performative and dialogical. These forms of analysis have different research questions and are associated with very different research traditions. Narrative analysis varies depending on whether researchers are interested in the content of what is told, how it is done, who is narrating and where it is done, or what narratives are at play in a story. The article describes the methodological process of these different approaches and exemplifies their specific application in an interview with a violent offender. It discusses the many advantages, but also the limitations of each of the narrative analysis traditions. Furthermore, it presents the narrative work stories do, such as entertaining, identity and boundary work, and processing and integrating—and argues that it is essential to understand these to capture the role of stories for crime.

摘要

犯罪既有故事性又有故事性，因此叙事分析对于犯罪学家来说至关重要。在本文中，我提出了四种不同的叙事分析方式：主题式、结构式、表演式和对话式。这些分析形式有不同的研究问题，并与非常不同的研究传统相关联。叙事分析取决于研究人员是否对讲述的内容感兴趣，如何完成，谁在叙述，在哪里完成，或者故事中的叙述是什么。本文描述了这些不同方法的方法过程，并举例说明了它们在与暴力犯罪者的访谈中的具体应用。它讨论了许多优点，但也讨论了每个叙事分析传统的局限性。此外，