A case of a serial sexual offender: The first ever report from Turkey

Zeren, Cem; Arslan, Muhammet Mustafa; Karanfil, Ramazan; Akçan, Ramazan

doi:10.1016/j.jflm.2012.04.014

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“…Being vulnerable to societal pressure is important. As the person gets more embedded within society, the chances of him doing something brutal in order to fulfil societal expectation gets higher (Zeren et al, 2012). The roles assigned to males and behaviors associated with masculinity is different from the modern understanding of masculinity in Western cultures.…”

Section: Offense Narrative Roles In the Turkish Contextmentioning

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Offense Narrative Roles of Turkish Offenders

Zeyrek-Rios

Canter

Youngs

2021

Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol

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The study of offense narratives emphasizes the agency of the offender which brings psychology closer to law. As an effort to create a standardized and quantitative method to evaluate offender narratives, Youngs and Canter developed the Narrative Roles Questionnaire (NRQ) based on the content analyses of the crime narratives of offenders in UK prisons. The current study aims to investigate the applicability of offense narrative roles framework among Turkish offenders. The application of the offense narrative roles model to a non-Western country is the first step toward the acceptance of criminal narrative theory as a universal explanation of criminal behavior. A translation of the NRQ was administered to 468 Turkish male inmates who have committed a wide range of offenses from fraud to murder. The results of an MDS analysis yielded four roles, namely Professional, Revenger, Hero, and Victim, echoing the original formulation proposed by Youngs and Canter. The reliability coefficients of scales derived for these roles were all at desired levels. The results support the applicability of the NRQ framework in a non-English context.

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Section: Offense Narrative Roles In the Turkish Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%