Publications

Publication details [#26960]

O'Connor, Patricia E. 1995. Speaking of crime: 'I don't know what made me do it'. Discourse & Society 6 (3) : 429–456.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

agency | frame | narrative | prison | self-presentation

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

ISBN

0957-9265

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This analysis of US maximum security prisoners' autobiograhical narratives focuses on the reflexive and reflective nature of epistemic utterances like 'I don't know what made me do it', as they provide both evaluation and speculation on the crime and the criminal's personal agency.