نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
عنوان مقاله English
نویسندگان English
Field and Aims: Literature (including novels, short stories, and poetry) has always served as a mirror of human life and society, capable of portraying various dimensions of human thought, behavior, and social relations. Before criminology emerged as an interdisciplinary field, literature played a significant role in explaining human behavior, particularly criminal conduct. A criminological reading of literary texts can serve as an interdisciplinary approach, bridging literature and criminology, while providing a suitable framework for more precise analysis of criminological and criminal justice issues.
Method: This study employs a descriptive-analytical method, drawing on narratology, critical discourse analysis and an intertextual approach. Literature—particularly in the genre of innovative and realistic crime novels—has consistently provided a space for exploring criminal motivations, offender psychology, and the social contexts of crime.
Findings and Conclusions: Literature, particularly in the innovative arealistic crime novel genre, has consistently provided a platform for exploring criminal motivations, offender psychology, and the social contexts of crime. Works by authors such as Dostoevsky, Victor Hugo, and Albert Camus serve as prominent examples of criminological theories expressed through literature. Specifically, Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment can be regarded as a seminal text that embodies, critiques, and analyzes a spectrum of criminological theories. This study seeks to validate the hypothesis that although Dostoevsky wrote this novel prior to the formal emergence of criminological theories, his keen observational skills and profound insights enabled him to craft a narrative deeply aligned with modern criminological frameworks. Any reader familiar with these theories will readily recognize Dostoevsky’s exceptional ability to construct a narrative that not only anticipates but also theorizes key criminological concepts decades before the discipline’s institutionalization.
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