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Telling My Truth: A Frame Analysis of Blame in Prisoner Accounts

Meckes, Jessica L.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1250953955

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2009, Master of Arts (MA), Ohio University, Sociology (Arts and Sciences).
In analyzing the causes of crime, one source of data has been often overlooked: the life-course narratives of criminals themselves. In an attempt to uncover the criminal perspective on causes of crime, I have read twelve first-person narrative texts and identified instances of blame within them. In coding for blame, I discovered four basic Blame Frames differentiated by their implication of responsibility taken by the author and by the source of control, as seen by the author. Separating the texts by time period with the 1950s as an experimental group, I compared the frames as they were found in each time period grouping. Within this small sample size, I nevertheless was able to discern a trend between the time period separations and the frames predominantly referenced. I found that the Blame Frame referenced most frequently in the 1950s was External in nature while in the Post1950s period, the blame shifted towards being Internal in nature.
Thomas M. Vander Ven, PhD (Committee Chair)
Michelle Brown, PhD (Committee Member)
Christine Mattley, PhD (Committee Member)
92 p.
Criminology; Cultural Anthropology; Families and Family Life; Social Psychology; Sociology
blame; accounts; prisoner; frame analysis; crime

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  • Meckes, J. L. (2009). Telling My Truth: A Frame Analysis of Blame in Prisoner Accounts [Master's thesis, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1250953955

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Meckes, Jessica. Telling My Truth: A Frame Analysis of Blame in Prisoner Accounts. 2009. Ohio University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1250953955.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Meckes, Jessica. "Telling My Truth: A Frame Analysis of Blame in Prisoner Accounts." Master's thesis, Ohio University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1250953955

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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