Stabbing to get to prison: Biography as an encounter with the criminal mind

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Abstract

Stabbing someone because of a minor altercation and then turning yourself in, knowing that you will be convicted of a serious crime, doesn’t seem to make sense. One needs to know the perpetrator and the life he lived in order to understand the why and how of this offence. Doing research for writing an authorized biography enables such deep immersion, because of the quality of data gathered on the single person. While it is common in criminology, as well as for writing a biography, to use a structured approach and stress context and background factors, in this study an interaction perspective is added to include what happens in the foreground. “An encounter with the criminal mind” can be understood as a personal meeting with a protagonist who commits crimes, but it can also refer to a close look at the criminal act and bring to the surface what the protagonist was thinking and feeling at that time.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)57-67
Number of pages10
JournalCriminological Encounters
Volume1
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2018

Keywords

  • biography, structure and interaction

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