@article{ref1,
title="In the shadow of the monster: gothic narratives of violence prevention",
journal="Critical criminology",
year="2021",
author="Skott, Sara and Nyhlén, Sara and Giritli-Nygren, Katarina",
volume="29",
number="2",
pages="385-400",
abstract="This article examines narratives by professionals working on preventing gender-based violence in Sweden through a Gothic lens. It draws on interviews with authorities responsible for preventing gender-based violence in one region of Sweden and explores the way national policies are translated into regional action. Our analysis shows how the &quot;reel&quot; is adopted by the professionals and becomes a part of the &quot;real,&quot; resulting in implications for policy. By looking at the participants' narratives through a Gothic lens, this article argues that local-level professionals working to prevent violence frame gender-based violence as a problem of two &quot;othered&quot; groups: the &quot;Immigrant Other&quot; and the &quot;Rural Other.&quot; Through a narratological strategy of illumination and obscurity, these groups of offenders are rendered both uncanny and monstrous by the respondents--a monstrosity that obscures any violence occurring outside this framing. The problem of gender-based violence is relegated from the site of the mundane to the sphere of the monstrous.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1205-8629",
doi="10.1007/s10612-020-09529-x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10612-020-09529-x"
}