Open AccessThe Folklore Detective
Author(s) -
Debra Lattanzi Shutika
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
ethnologies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1708-0401
pISSN - 1481-5974
DOI - 10.7202/1069849ar
Subject(s) - narrative , folklore , scholarship , narrative inquiry , narrative network , work (physics) , history , sociology , literature , criminology , narrative criticism , art , political science , law , engineering , mechanical engineering
This essay will provide an overview of the work of narrative criminologists and how that scholarship overlaps with the work of narrative folklore. Criminologists have long relied on stories as an essential aspect of their work, but “narrative criminology” only entered scholarly conversations of criminologists in the 2000s. Drawing on the case of the West Virginia co-ed murders in 1970, I will demonstrate how narrative criminologists and folklorists might work together to create a new methodology that I’m calling forensic narrative analysis.