Corona crimes : how pandemic narratives change criminal landscapes
Fondevila, Gustavo (Center for Economic Research and Teaching (México))
Sandberg, Sveinung (University of Oslo.)

Date:	2020
Description:	21 pàg.
Abstract:	The epidemic psychology of pandemics creates an atmosphere of panic and fear that can expedite new laws and facilitate criminogenic narrative arousal. Using narrative criminology, we discuss crimes that emerged from pandemic narratives in the early phases of the disease in Mexico. We show how pandemic master narratives have unexpected criminogenic effects; can be negotiated to make them criminogenic; and are opposed by more fundamentally criminogenic counter-narratives. We also show how pandemics repurpose justifications for traditional crimes and offer an opportunity for narrative repositioning of "criminals". Societal crises intensify the continuous narrative negotiation that always underlies the meaning of crime. Pandemics can therefore act as a prism through which social scientists can see how crime is an ongoing narrative accomplishment.
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	Covid-19 ; Epidemic psychology ; Latin America ; Mexico ; Narrative criminology ; Pandemic ; SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
Published in:	Theoretical Criminology, Vol. 26 Núm. 2 (2020) , p. 224-244, ISSN 1461-7439

DOI: 10.1177/1362480620981637
PMID: 35527800

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