Life stories

Crime in Latin America

Fear, helplessness, pain, anger: The narrated emotions of intimate femicide perpetrators in Latin America

While studies of femicide perpetrators have focused on background factors, such as criminal history and mental health conditions, little...

Crime in Latin America

Doing Marginalized Motherhood: Identities and Practices among Incarcerated Women in Mexico

This study examines the mothering practices and identities of incarcerated women in Mexico. Data gathered from repeated life-story...

Crime in Latin America

“Stop it with Mommy and Daddy!” Analyzing How Accounts of People in Prison Change with Their Trajectory in Argentinean Penal Institutions

The relationship between adverse childhood experiences and criminality has been amply explored in criminology and the social sciences. A...

Crime in Latin America

Protecting Parents, Idealizing the Past, Blaming Friends: Life Stories of Men Imprisoned for Violence

Life-stories emerge from a wide variety of facts and events in individual lives and weave a selected few of these together to make...

Crime in Latin America

The soundtrack of criminal careers: On music, life courses and life storie

Music is ubiquitous in contemporary societies, and criminologists are paying increasing attention to it, asserting that it takes...

Crime in Latin America

Is lethal violence invisible to the eyes of the offenders? Narratives from the Argentina and Chile

Homicide is among the most serious crimes and, consequently, it is punished with some of the longest prison sentences. The analysis of...

Crime in Latin America

Corona crimes: How pandemic narratives change criminal landscapes

The epidemic psychology of pandemics creates an atmosphere of panic and fear that can expedite new laws and facilitate criminogenic...

Crime in Latin America

Stories of the “good father”: The role of fatherhood among incarcerated men in Mexico

This study examines the role of fatherhood for incarcerated men in Mexico, based on repeated life-story interviews with twelve men. We...