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This edited volume brings together first person accounts from scholars, activists and policy workers who have directly navigated the stigmas attached to being labeled a so-called ‘criminal offender’ or ‘victim’. Using reflexive, phenomenological analysis of autoethnographic stories, the collection shows how individuals confront, negotiate and reshape their identities across varied life circumstances.
The narratives reveal both the breadth of stigma within the criminal legal system and the different strategies people use to manage it—such as denial, secrecy, isolation, withdrawal and/or disclosure. In highlighting the diversity of stigma-related experiences the collection interrogates who truly benefits from these distinctions and asks why they persist despite their limitations.
Cindy Brooks Dollar is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Sociology, Criminology, and Justice Studies at University of North Carolina Greensboro.
Grant Tietjen is Associate Professor in the School of Social Work & Criminal Justice at the University of Washington Tacoma.
1. Introduction to the Text – Cindy Brooks Dollar and Grant Tietjen
2. My Journey With Social Stigma: False Narratives, Education, and Empowerment – Grant Tietjen
3. Stigma, Digitalized Identity and Interpretative Agency: A Poetic Criminological Inquiry of Heideggerian Flattening – Lucas Alan Dietsche
4. Stigma: Wearing the Label – Sinem Bozkurt
5. Tale of a Turtle: An Account of Accountability – maryam turtle
6. The Stigma of Addiction – Scott Bauer
7. Problem Child Be a Problem: The Social Currency of Black Masculinity Is Shadowed by Perceived Criminality – Steven Randolph Cureton
8. “This Isn’t God’s Plan for You”: Evangelicalism, Sexual Concealment, and Stigma Management – Andrew Ainsworth
9. Stigma and Scapegoating: A Personalized Account – Jennifer Thompson
10. Am I a Real Victim?: A Former Altar Boy and Current Critical Criminologist’s Story – David Kauzlarich
11. Stop Crying or I’ll Give You Something to Cry About: The Invisible Line Between Child Abuse and Spankings – LaToya Dixon Thomas
12. Gendered Perceptions and Violence Against Children in the Stranger Danger Era – Cindy Brooks Dollar
13. Letters, Visits, and the Space Between: Narrating Stigma, Contact, and Identity Formation During Parental Imprisonment – Garrett T. Lutheran
14. Discussion and Conclusion – Cindy Brooks Dollar and Grant Tietjen