1st Edition
Storytelling for Crime and Justice Towards a Creative Criminology: A Toolkit
Introduction: let the journey begin
1 Making stories
2 Ethical storytelling as counter-narratives
3 Finding (historical) stories of crime and justice
4 Storytelling literacy, crime, and justice
5 Performative storytelling, crime and justice
6 Poetic inquiry, crime, and justice
7 Staging criminology: ethnodrama and ethnotheatre
8 Aesop’s Fables, crime, and justice
9 Audio and visual storytelling, crime, and justice
10 Reflexive practice: performance auto-ethnography
11 Using crime fiction for teachable moments
Epilogue: towards a creative criminology
Biography
Martin Glynn is an experienced and internationally renowned criminologist with over 40 years’ experience of working in criminal justice, public health, and educational settings. As a writer, Martin has written for BBC 1’s Casualty, had radio dramas produced for BBC Radio 4, written, and directed theatre productions, published poetry books, alongside being an author of children’s books. He gained his PhD at Birmingham City University in 2013, where he is currently a senior lecturer in criminology as well as a member of EQUITY Actors’ union, the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain, and the Crime Writers’ Association.
