TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2020//
TI  - 'I did what I had to do': loyalty and sacrifice in girls' narratives of homicide in southern Brazil
JO  - British journal of criminology
A1  - Otto, Natália
SP  - 703
EP  - 721
VL  - 60
IS  - 3
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0007-0955
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azz079
ID  - ref1
ER  -