@article{ref1,
title="When being bad is good? Bringing neutralization theory to subcultural narratives of right-wing violence",
journal="Studies in conflict and terrorism",
year="2020",
author="Colvin, Sarah and Pisoiu, Daniela",
volume="43",
number="6",
pages="493-508",
abstract="Bringing together terrorism studies, subcultural theory, and narrative criminology, we here test the thesis that neutralization theory might be (further) developed to provide a framework for understanding stories of ideologically informed subcultural violence. Beginning with Gresham Sykes's and David Matza's original five neutralizations, we illustrate how actors engage them in three modes: the encultured, the subcultural, and (tentatively) the postnarrative mode. We test the first two modes in particular against narratives and narrative fragments from interviews with men convicted of right-wing violence in Germany. Our findings provide a preliminary illustration of what neutralization theory might bring to research into political violence.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1057-610X",
doi="10.1080/1057610X.2018.1452754",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1057610X.2018.1452754"
}