Narrating Justice and Hope - How Good Stories Counter Crime and Harm

"Narrating Justice and Hope takes inspiration from narrative criminology to plumb the potential for stories and storytelling to do good - limiting harm-doing, fostering healing and connection, and suggesting better futures"--

About the author

Lois Presser (Editor)

Lois Presser is Professor of Sociology at the University of Tennessee. She is the author or co-editor of seven books including Unsaid: Analyzing Harmful Silences, Inside Story: How Narrative Drive Mass Harm, and Narrative Criminology with Sveinung Sandberg.

Jennifer Fleetwood (Editor)

Jennifer Fleetwood is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is the author of Drug Mules: Women in the International Cocaine Trade. She edited The Emerald Handbook of Narrative Criminology with Lois Presser, Thomas Ugelvik and Sveinung Sandberg.

Sveinung Sandberg (Editor)

Sveinung Sandberg is Professor of Criminology at the University of Oslo, Norway. He is the coauthor or co-editor of six books, including Street Capital: Black Cannabis Dealers in a White Welfare State and Narrative Criminology with Lois Presser.

Product details

• Assisted by: Jennifer Fleetwood (Editor), Lois Presser (Editor), Sveinung Sandberg (Editor)
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 04.02.2025, delayed
• EAN: 9781479824496
• ISBN: 978-1-4798-2449-6
• No. of pages: 280
• Weight: 553 g
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories