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Abstract
Returning to criminology's old themes of the life story (Shaw, 1930), this article examines the importance of biography for the discipline's interpretation of people's (essentially men's) `criminal' lives. The article proposes that criminological research can be usefully developed from the single `life story' account or `biography' with criminological inferences. Particular attention is paid to Denzin's (1989: 70) ideas on `epiphany', or significant turning point moments in life, which are introduced in the article as useful for interpreting an individual's relationship to `crime' within broad socio-structural contexts. The `hegemonic masculine biography' is forwarded towards the end of the article as a means by which the individual biography and social structural forces can be interpreted anew in criminology that, as a discipline, continues to focus on the actions and outcomes of anti-social male behaviour.
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