%0 Journal Article
%T Narrative expressivism: A criminological approach to the expressive function of international criminal justice
%A Anette Bringedal Houge
%J Criminology & Criminal Justice
%@ 1748-8966
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1748895818787009
%X In response to recent demands to make use of international criminal justice institutions¡¯ archives for social scientific research, this article develops a theoretical approach to international criminal justice called narrative expressivism. Narrative expressivism considers criminal justice as a potent source of information about past crimes ¨C yet also, as a site that impacts on present and future societal understandings of mass violence, promoting a particular structuring of thought. As such, narrative expressivism addresses what kind of knowledge international criminal justice, its institutions and archives, provide the empirical basis for. Theorizing expressivism through a narrative lens, narrative expressivism shifts the emphasis of legal expressivist approaches from facts to stories, from punishment to process, from purpose to function, and from the normative to the descriptive
%K International criminal justice
%K international criminal law
%K juridification of knowledge
%K legal expressivism
%K mass violence
%K narrative expressivism
%K supranational criminology
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1748895818787009