Stories make harmful actions both plausible and compelling. They provide a lot of what
qualitative researchers consider data, but as a discursive form have received only scant …

Bourdieu's key conceptual tools, including the forms of capital and habitus, have recently
come to be deployed with greater frequency in criminological research. Less attention has …

Violence features in human life, not only as actual physical confrontation but also as stories.
Stories of violence are particularly important in violence-prone subcultures and among those …

The boredom and alienation produced by capitalist societies and countervailing forces of
attraction and excitement are at the heart of the subcultural account of crime. The …

Cannabis is sometimes associated with feminine or gender neutral values. Still, most
cannabis users are male, and in our data cannabis use is associated with masculinity. In …

It is generally accepted that the widespread availability of specialist services has helped
drive the growth of cybercrime in the past fifteen to twenty years. Individuals and groups …

Penality in Scandinavia has been seen as somewhat of an outlier, a redoubt against the
punitive turn witnessed in other parts of Western Europe and the United States. This article …

A standard typology of drug trafficking organizations would assist in interpreting the results
of studies made of these organizations. Several such typologies have been proposed, and …

The act of user-dealing has largely been explored within criminology in conjunction with the
'drug–crime'link or with a focus on ethnography and subculture. Whereas it is known that …

Humor is essential to social life, but it is often overlooked in the study of crime and other
social problems. We introduce and make use of humor theory, emphasizing the theories of …