Conflicting Narratives of Crime and Punishment Edited by Martina Althoff Bernd Dollinger Holger Schmidt Conflicting Narratives of Crime and Punishment Martina Althoff · Bernd Dollinger · Holger Schmidt Editors Conflicting Narratives of Crime and Punishment Editors Martina Althoff Bernd Dollinger Department of Criminal Law Department of Education & Psychology & Criminology University of Siegen University of Groningen Siegen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany Groningen, The Netherlands Holger Schmidt Department of Social Education, Adult Education and Early Childhood Education (ISEP) TU Dortmund University Dortmund, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany ISBN 978-3-030-47235-1 ISBN 978-3-030-47236-8 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47236-8 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 This work is subject to copyright. 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Cover credit: Pinghung Chen/EyeEm This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland Contents 1 Fighting for the “Right” Narrative: Introduction to Conflicting Narratives of Crime and Punishment 1 Martina Althoff, Bernd Dollinger and Holger Schmidt Section I Foundation 2 Counter-Narratives of Crime and Punishment 23 Michael Bamberg and Zachary Wipff 3 Small Stories Research and Narrative Criminology: ‘Plotting’ an Alliance 43 Alex Georgakopoulou 4 Public Narratives of Crime and Criminal Justice: Connecting ‘Small’ and ‘Big’ Stories to Make Public Narratives Visible 63 Martina Y. Feilzer v vi Contents Section II Popular and Everyday Narrations of Crime and Punishment 5 Crime and Narration: The Creation of (In)Security in Everyday Life 87 Katharina Eisch-Angus 6 Popular and Visual Narratives of Punishment in Museum Settings 113 Hannah Thurston 7 Conflicting Counternarratives of Crime and Justice in US Superhero Comics 139 Daniel Stein 8 Sympathies and Scandals: (Counter-)Narratives of Criminality and Policing in Inter-war Britain 161 John Carter Wood Section III Crime Narratives in Social and Criminal Justice 9 ‘Let’s Put Human Rights Right’: (Counter) Narratives About Human Rights in the UK Popular Press 183 Lieve Gies 10 Files as Prototypical Master Narratives 201 Mechthild Bereswill, Henrike Buhr and Patrik Müller-Behme 11 Practical Narratives in the Criminal Law Process: The Suspect’s Statement 219 Martha Komter Contents vii Section IV M edia Outrages and Narrations of Gender, Crime and Migration 12 Competing Narratives in the Nexus of Migration-Crime-Gender 239 Maria De Angelis 13 Stories of Gender and Migration, Crime and Security: Between Outrage and Denial 259 Martina Althoff Index 279 Notes on Contributors Martina Althoff is an Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Groningen, Department of Criminal Law and Criminology. Focus of her research is the political and social reactions to criminality, societal effects of the criminal justice system, gendered aspects of crime and Feminist Criminology. She published various arti- cles, book chapters and academic books in English, Dutch and German. Michael Bamberg received his M.Phil. from the University of York (Linguistics) and Ph.D. from UC Berkeley (Psychology). Previous to his appointment as Professor of Psychology at Clark University (USA), he held teaching positions in Sociology (FU Berlin), in Linguistics at the University of York (UK), and Foreign Languages at Tongji University (Shanghai) and Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (Guangzhou), as well as Universität Saarbrücken (Germany). For 2020, he is on a Fulbright Distinguished Chair Scholarship with the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. His scholarly interests are in narrative, identity and qualitative methodology. ix x Notes on Contributors Mechthild Bereswill is a Professor for Sociology at Kassel University, Department of Human Sciences, Institute of Social Policy and Social Welfare. Her fields of research include gender studies, social problems and social control, qualitative methodologies. Henrike Buhr is a research assistant at Kassel University, Department of Human Sciences, Institute of Social Policy and Social Welfare. Fields of research include Qualitative Research, Biography Studies, Social Problems and Social Control. Maria De Angelis is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Leeds Beckett University, UK. She holds a Ph.D. in her specialist area of human trafficking, and her research examines intersectionality across crim- inal, immigration and social policy. She is on the board of CIRN— the Centre for International Research on Narrative at St. Thomas’ University, Canada—and is an active member of the Women Crime and Criminal Justice Network (British Society of Criminology). Her current project is one of impact and involves transforming wom- en’s narratives published in Social Policy and Society (2019) into an audio-photo-art exhibition for display in city-wide public spaces. Bernd Dollinger is a Professor of Social Pedagogy at the University of Siegen, Germany, Department of Pedagogy & Psychology. His fields of research are youth crime, history and theory of social pedagogy, welfare policy. His recent publication includes Dollinger, B. (2020): Changing Narratives of Youth Crime: From Social Causes to Threats to the Social. London: Routledge. Katharina Eisch-Angus is a Professor at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology of the University of Graz, Austria. Major research interests are in the fields of contemporary everyday cultures, from the anthropology of borders and difference to processes of securitization and subjectivation, as expressed in collec- tive memory or everyday narration. A methodological emphasis is on multi-perspective ethnographic, semiotic and ethno-psychoanalytic approaches. Recent publications include Absurde Angst. Narrationen der Sicherheitsgesellschaft [Absurd Anxiety. Narrations of the Society of Security], Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2019; Der Alltag der (Un) Notes on Contributors xi sicherheit. Ethnographisch-kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven auf die Sicherheitsgesellschaft [The Everyday of (In)Security. Perspectives of Ethnography and Cultural]. Martina Y. Feilzer is Professor in Criminology and Criminal Justice at Bangor University. Her research focuses on public perceptions of criminal justice at local, national and European levels; the relationship between the media and public opinion of criminal justice; questions of legitimacy, trust in justice and penal policy; and comparative and his- torical criminal justice research. She is Co-Director of WISERD (Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data) at Bangor and Co-Director of the Welsh Centre for Crime and Social Justice. Alex Georgakopoulou is Professor of Discourse Analysis & Socio- linguistics, King’s College London. She has developed small stories research, a paradigm for examining the role of everyday life stories in the (re)formation of social relations and identity politics. She has (co) authored several books that include Analyzing Narrative (with Anna De Fina, 2012, Cambridge University Press) & ‘Quantified Storytelling: A Narrative Analysis of Metrics and Algorithms’ (With Stefan Iversen and Carsten Stage, Palgrave, forthcoming). Her latest study of small stories has been carried out within the ERC project ‘Life-writing of the moment: The sharing and updating self on social media’ (www.ego- media.org). Lieve Gies is an Associate Professor in the School of Media, Communication and Sociology at the University of Leicester. Her research focuses on human rights in the media and media representa- tions of the law more generally. Martha Komter is ‘research fellow’ at The Netherlands Institute for de Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR). She has published widely on various aspects of language use in the criminal process, espe- cially on interaction in the courtroom and in the police interrogating room. Her research materials include audio and video recordings of authentic police interrogations and trials. The analyses of the courtroom materials have been published as: ‘Dilemma’s in the Courtroom. A Study of Trials of Violent Crime in the Netherlands.’ Hillsdale, N. J.: Lawrence