“I got caught, but I’m not a loser”: Moral economy and arrest narratives in China's heroin trade
Published online on June 06, 2026
Abstract
Theoretical Criminology, Ahead of Print.
Narrative criminology illuminates identity change but less often examines how accounts mobilize moral resources across moral orders. This article reads arrest narratives through a moral-economy lens and introduces co-legibility: the capacity of stories to ...
Narrative criminology illuminates identity change but less often examines how accounts mobilize moral resources across moral orders. This article reads arrest narratives through a moral-economy lens and introduces co-legibility: the capacity of stories to ...