Criminology is foundationally an applied discipline, or one whose knowledge seeks to shape some non-academic practice. Narratives – particularly the narratives of parties to ‘crime’ – are essential to criminology, but criminologists have hardly engaged with narratology. This paper tracks the progression from traditional narrative research involving harm agents and criminalized persons to a relatively new narrative criminology that is attentive to narrative forms and strategies inasmuch as it considers these as shaping harm. In addition, the paper forecasts narrative criminology’s fruitful engagement in concepts from rhetorical narratology. Interviews with men who perpetrated violence and insights from restorative justice encounters are used to demonstrate the potential value of rhetorical narratological concepts to narrative criminology and to interventions informed by narrative criminology.

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 叙事学，应用


犯罪学从根本上说是一门应用学科，或者说是一门其知识试图塑造一些非学术实践的学科。叙事——尤其是“犯罪”当事人的叙述——对犯罪学来说是必不可少的，但犯罪学家几乎没有参与过叙事学。本文追踪了从涉及伤害主体和罪犯的传统叙事研究到相对较新的叙事犯罪学的进展，该叙事犯罪学关注叙事形式和策略，因为它认为这些是塑造伤害的。此外，本文还预测了叙事犯罪学对修辞叙事学概念的富有成效的参与。对实施暴力的男性的采访和恢复性司法遭遇的见解被用来证明修辞叙事学概念对叙事犯罪学和叙事犯罪学所告知的干预的潜在价值。