What is it about?
The article is about the pyschoanalytical exploration of affect in the discourse of offenders and its difference from the concept emotion.
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Why is it important?
Affect and emotion should not be confused with each other while the researcher deals with offenders’ reaction. Emotions usually refer to the way that affects are represented at the level of language. However, offenders’ experience of affects may well be way different from emotional reactions in discourse. To explore affects, one needs to take on a psychoanalytically-inflected psychosocial approach.
Perspectives
This article takes the psychoanalytical concept of affect to the methodological debates of criminology and further enlightens how affect can be better conceptualised and explored in understanding offender discourse and behaviour.
Dr Boran Mercan
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This page is a summary of: Doing criminological research: Affective states versus emotional reactions, Theoretical Criminology, June 2018, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1362480618779399.
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