Join us for a spirited discussion about narrative criminologist Jennifer Fleetwood’s new book. In What We Talk About When We Talk About Crime, she turns her attention to the rise of personal narratives about crime in public life. Talking about crime has emerged as a seemingly common-sense thing to do and examines their contemporary rise. Through case studies including Shamima Begum’s 2019 Times interview, a section of Myra Hindley’s unpublished autobiography, Mo Farah’s documentary account of experiencing modern slavery and Prince Andrew’s Panorama interview, she examines how these stories come to be told and what they do for their tellers. While personal narratives promise to offer the truth and enact justice, these promises are rarely fulfilled. What We Talk About When We Talk About Crime experiments with communicating criminological ideas and analysis to a mainstream audience weaving together narrative analysis, criminological theory, cultural critique and some of her own stories too.