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Constructing crime, enacting morality: emotion, crime and anti-social behaviour in an inner-city community
journal contribution
posted on 2012-12-03, 10:02 authored by John Cromby, Steven D. Brown, Harriet Gross, Abigail Locke, Anne PattersonResearch into emotion, crime and anti-social behaviour has lacked psychological
input and rarely considered the multi-directional associations between emotion, crime
and morality. We present a study analysing audio recordings of two community
groups meeting in a deprived inner city area with high rates of crime, using
conversation analytic and discursive psychological techniques to conduct an affectivetextual
analysis that draws out aspects of participants’ moral reasoning and identifies
its emotional dimensions. Moral reasoning around crime and ASB took three forms
(invoking moral categories, developing moral hierarchies, invoking vulnerable
others), and was bound up with a wide range of emotional enactments and emotion
displays. Findings are discussed in relation to contemporary government policy and
possible future research.
Funding
This work was funded by the ESRC under grant RES-000-22-2434 “Emotion and Crime: a mixed-methods approach”.
History
School
- Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Citation
CROMBY, J. ... et al, 2010. Constructing crime, enacting morality: emotion, crime and anti-social behaviour in an inner-city community. British Journal of Criminology, 50 (5), pp. 873-895.Publisher
Oxford University Press on behalf of the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies (ISTD) / © The Author 2010Version
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publication date
2010Notes
This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in British Journal of Criminology following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azq029ISSN
0007-0955Publisher version
Language
- en