"They say that you are a danger but you are not": Representations and construction of the moral self in narratives of "dangerous individuals"1

Deviant Behavior

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 299-328

  Green, Gill ^a   South, Nigel ^a   Smith, Rose ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33745756205     PISSN: 01639625     EISSN: 15210456     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01639620600605580     Document Type: Article

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