@article{ref1,
title="'I did what I had to do': loyalty and sacrifice in girls' narratives of homicide in southern Brazil",
journal="British journal of criminology",
year="2020",
author="Otto, Natália",
volume="60",
number="3",
pages="703-721",
abstract="This paper examines how criminalized teenage girls who have committed homicide reconcile violent practices with self-conceptions of femininity in their personal narratives. Data come from 13 biographical interviews with adolescent girls incarcerated in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Drawing from Bourdieusian theory and narrative criminology, I examine how gendered social structures shape how girls produce intelligible and morally coherent accounts of their crimes. I found that girls share a narrative habitus that allows for three different frames to make sense of violence: violence as a gendered resource, as a gendered failure and as a gendered dilemma. This paper contributes to a growing feminist narrative criminology that investigates how personal narratives of violence are embedded in gendered social structures.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0007-0955",
doi="10.1093/bjc/azz079",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azz079"
}