Antònia Linde Garcia's research while affiliated with Universitat Oberta de Catalunya and other places

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This article looks at an experience within the context of distance higher education, which has incorporated the reading of two novelettes (short novels, commonly known as novellas) created on an ad hoc basis for two subjects of a Criminology degree course. The goal of this research is to analyse students’ perceptions of their validity as a study ma...

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... While real-life narratives enable students to ground theory in the concrete realities of those who work in, or are subject to, the criminal justice system, fictitious accounts can be just as valuable. Working in partnership with crime fiction writers, Perez et al. (2019) co-produced novelettes to teach criminological theory at the University of Catalonia. They found that the novelettes were mostly received positively by students, enhancing 'reader experience by imagining realities based on real-life events' (Perez et al., 2019(Perez et al., : 1886. ...