%0 Journal Article
%T Towards a criminology of structurally conditioned emotions: Combining Bourdieu¡¯s field theory and cultural criminology
%A Annick Prieur
%J European Journal of Criminology
%@ 1741-2609
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/1477370817737242
%X When trying to explain why some people commit crimes while most do not, criminological theory has had a problem with linking agency and structure. A promising solution came in Jock Young¡¯s version of cultural criminology, which integrated Merton¡¯s strain theory with Katz¡¯s account of the emotional rewards from criminal acts. Young claimed the core emotion behind different crimes would be a structurally caused experience of humiliation. Linking individual agency and structural conditions through emotions certainly advances understanding, but Young did not show how this linking was effectuated. Pierre Bourdieu¡¯s field theory may contribute with a better grasp on how structural conditions influence the social agent¡¯s perception of the world and emotional orientation towards it. After exploring how this argument may be supported with regard to empirical cases ¨C studies of graffiti, thefts and violence ¨C the concluding discussion deals with the limits of an approach that combines fields and emotions
%K Agency
%K structure
%K Bourdieu
%K cultural criminology
%K emotions
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1477370817737242