This collection presents a diverse set of case studies and theoretical reflections on how criminologists engage with practitioners and policy makers while undertaking research. The contributions to this volume highlight both the challenges and opportunities associated with doing criminological research in a reflexive and collaborative manner. They further examine the ethical and practical implications of the impact agenda in the higher education sector with respect to the production and the dissemination of criminological knowledge.
Developed to serve as an internationally accessible reference volume for scholars, practitioners and postgraduate criminology students, this book responds to the awareness that criminology as a discipline increasingly encompasses not only the study of crime, but also the agencies, process and structures that regulate it. Key questions include: How can criminal justice policy be studied as part of the field of criminology? How do we account for our own roles as researchers who are a part of the policy process? What factors and dynamics influence, hinder and facilitate good policy?
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1 Impact and the Reflexive Imperative in Criminal Justice Policy, Practice and Research |
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Part 1 Reflexive Approaches to Criminal Justice Policy Research |
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2 Interpreting Influence: Towards Reflexivity in Penal Policymaking? |
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33 | (24) |
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3 When the Stars Align: Juvenile Justice Policy Reform in New South Wales |
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4 Towards Hope, Solidarity and Re-humanisation |
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5 Policy as a Crime Scene |
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6 Reflexivity in Statistics as Sociology of Quantification: The Case of Repeat Victimization Modelling |
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Part 2 Collaboration and Knowledge Exchange in Practice |
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7 Criminological Knowledge and the Politics of Impact: Implications for Researching Juvenile Justice |
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149 | (20) |
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8 Reflexive Academic--Practitioner Collaboration with the Police |
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169 | (22) |
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9 The Shifting Legitimacy of Knowledge Across Academic and Police/Practitioner Settings: Highlighting the Risks and Limits of Reflexivity |
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10 The Politics of Establishing Reflexivity as a Core Component of Good Policing |
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11 Getting In, Getting Out and Getting Back: Conducting Long-term Research in Immigration Detention Centres |
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Part 3 Positionality, Power and the Reflexive Imperative |
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12 Cartel Biographies: The Researcher as Storyteller and the Preservation of the Research Wilderness on the Inside of the Subject |
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13 Who Needs Evidence? Radical Feminism, the Christian Right and Sex Work Research in Northern Ireland |
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289 | (26) |
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14 Insider? Outsider? Reflections on Navigating Positionality When Researching Restorative Justice Policing |
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315 | (20) |
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15 Situated Perspectives on the Global Fight Against Torture |
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16 Ethical Criminologists Fly Economy: Process-oriented Criminological Engagement `Abroad' |
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Sarah Armstrong is a Senior Research Fellow in Sociology at the University of Glasgow. She is widely published and her research focuses on prisons, policy and culture. Jarrett Blaustein is a Lecturer in Criminology at Monash University. His research focuses on intersections between policing and international development. Alistair Henry is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Edinburgh and Associate Director of the Scottish Institute for Police Research. His research focuses on policing and security, community safety, and the sociology of organizations.