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    STORIE DI CRIMINI: RISULTATI SULLE STRUTTURE NARRATIVE DEI RESOCONTI DI AZIONI DEVIANTI

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    The article summarizes findings highlighted with a study on narrative structures and contents about crimes. In this paper we pursue the analysis of narrative structures. The qualitative research starts by theoretical and epistemological accounts and it brings forward a content analysis technique which improves the value of interpretative components in research process. This point of view is instantiated here: the research is conducted by means of narrative interviews and it involved 34 participants prisoners in prisons Regina Coeli and Rebibbia. The objective was to reconstruct narrative structures of accounts gathered in a non inquisitive context: more specifically, our interest was aimed to verify the possible presence of narrative structures underlying these accounts. All the interviews were analyzed through ATLAS.ti specifically referring to Evaluation model by W. Labov. The discussion of findings is complemented with the implications of employment of narrative methodologies and interpretative content analysis

    Bridging "quality" and "quantity" in the study of criminal action.

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    This article summarises the main findings of a study on the narrative construction of deviant actions which focused both on the contents and the structures of the narrative accounts provided by criminals. The research was conducted by collecting narrative interviews. These involved 34 individuals detained in two penal institutions in Rome. These accounts are typically constructed in a non-investigative context. Their exploration is mainly qualitative, but our aim here concern the quantitative sight of qualitative data and viceversa. The project was focused to find if there are any differences in the narrative accounts provided by different offenders, classified according to the type of crime they committed and their experience in the area of deviance. All interviews were analysed using a qualitative data analysis software and taking the “Evaluation model” as a reference. Participants were divided into three groups according to their criminal experience and into four groups according to the crime they committed. The results show that there are important differences in the way a crime is reconstructed by offenders with different criminal history. The paper also proposes solutions and innovative strategies to deal with quantification and qualitative data

    Narrating a crime: Contexts and accounts of deviant actions.

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    This article summarises the main findings of a study on the narrative construction of deviant actions which focused both on the contents and the structures of the narrative accounts provided by criminals. The qualitative research was conducted by collecting narrative interviews. These involved 34 individuals detained in the penal institutions of Regina Coeli and Rebibbia (Rome) and were aimed at revealing how accounts are typically constructed in a non-investigative context. More specifically, the aim of the project was to show whether there are any differences in the narrative accounts provided by different offenders, classified according to the type of crime they committed and their experience in the area of deviance. All interviews were analysed using the software for qualitative analysis Atlas.ti 5.0 and taking the 'Evaluation model' of W Labov as a reference. Participants were divided into three groups according to their criminal experience (ie professionals, intermediates and amateurs) and into four groups according to the crime they committed (ie homicide, robbery and theft, and crimes related to drugs and fencing). The results show that there are important differences in the way a crime is reconstructed by offenders with different criminal history. The paper also proposes solutions and innovative strategies to deal with quantification and qualitative data

    The role of offender experience and crimes in shaping accounts

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    The paper summarises the main findings obtained in a wide study on the construction of deviant actions' narratives. In this paper, we focused on two topics: both topics are crucial to suggest new directions in investigative psychology. Narratives provide investigative psychologists with new sets of tools to define criminal profiles, such as narrative profiling. This paper deals with a qualitative investigation undertaken by collecting narrative interviews. These interviews were conducted with 34 prisoners held in two penal institutes in Rome and their goal was to reveal the typical form of constructing accounts taken in a non-investigative context. The specific aim of the project was to show whether differences exist in the narrative accounts provided by perpetrators of crime considering two factors: the type of crime committed and the experience in the deviance arena, which are hypothesised to shape narrations. Interviews were analysed with particular reference to the ‘Evaluation model’ by W. Labov. Participants were divided into three groups on the basis of the type of experience in the deviant field (professionals, intermediates and amateurs) and into four groups according to the crime committed (homicide, robbery and theft, and crimes linked to drugs and fencing). The results show the significant existence of clear differences in the reconstruction of the crime committed compared to the experience of the protagonist
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