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When Being Bad is Good? Bringing Neutralization Theory to Subcultural Narratives of Right-Wing Violence

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  • Sarah Colvin
  • Daniela Pisoiu

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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.

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Handle: RePEc:taf:uterxx:v:43:y:2020:i:6:p:493-508
DOI: 10.1080/1057610X.2018.1452754
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