Sandberg Sveinung, Fondevila Gustavo
University of Oslo (UiO), Norway.
Center for Economic Research and Teaching (CIDE), Mexico.
Theor Criminol. 2022 May;26(2):224-244. doi: 10.1177/1362480620981637.
The epidemic psychology of pandemics creates an atmosphere of panic and fear that can expedite new laws and facilitate criminogenic narrative arousal. Using narrative criminology, we discuss crimes that emerged from pandemic narratives in the early phases of the disease in Mexico. We show how pandemic master narratives have unexpected criminogenic effects; can be negotiated to make them criminogenic; and are opposed by more fundamentally criminogenic counter-narratives. We also show how pandemics repurpose justifications for traditional crimes and offer an opportunity for narrative repositioning of "criminals". Societal crises intensify the continuous narrative negotiation that always underlies the meaning of crime. Pandemics can therefore act as a prism through which social scientists can see how crime is an ongoing narrative accomplishment.
大流行病的流行心理学营造出一种恐慌和恐惧的氛围，这可能会加速新法律的出台，并助长犯罪叙事的兴起。运用叙事犯罪学，我们探讨了墨西哥在疾病早期阶段因大流行叙事而出现的犯罪。我们展示了大流行的主导叙事如何产生意想不到的犯罪ogenic效应；如何通过协商使其具有犯罪ogenic性；以及如何受到更具根本性的犯罪ogenic反叙事的反对。我们还展示了大流行病如何重新利用传统犯罪的正当理由，并为 “罪犯” 的叙事重新定位提供机会。社会危机加剧了一直作为犯罪意义基础的持续叙事协商。因此，大流行病可以作为一个棱镜，社会科学家可以通过它看到犯罪是一个持续的叙事成就。
