书目名称 | Public Confidence in Criminal Justice |
副标题 | A History and Critiq |
编辑 | Elizabeth R. Turner |
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概述 | Offers a provocative, critical analysis of the prominent research agenda and its portrayal in the media.Presents an historical overview of the history of public confidence.Draws on recent criminal jus |
丛书名称 | Critical Criminological Perspectives |
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描述 | .In this book, Liz Turner argues that survey methods have gained an unwarranted and unhealthy level of dominance when it comes to understanding how the public views the criminal justice system. The focus on measuring public confidence in criminal justice by researchers, politicians and criminal justice agencies has tended to prioritise the production of quantitative representations of general opinions, at the expense of more specific, qualitative or deliberative approaches. This has occurred not due to any inherent methodological superiority of survey-based approaches, but due to the congruence of the survey-based, general measure of opinion with the prevailing neoliberal political tendency to engage with citizens as consumers...By identifying the historical conditions on which contemporary knowledge claims rest, and tracing the political power struggles out of which sprang the idea of public confidence in criminal justice as a real and measurable object, Turnershows that things could be otherwise. She also draws attention to the ways in which survey researchers have asserted their dominance over other approaches, suppressing convincing claims by advocates of deliberative methods t |
出版日期 | Book 2018 |
关键词 | democracy; politics of research; politics and crime; democratic citizenship; trust; fear; history of crime |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67897-9 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-319-88506-3 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-67897-9Series ISSN 2731-0604 Series E-ISSN 2731-0612 |
issn_series | 2731-0604 |
copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 |