Can criminologists change the world?: critical reflections on the politics, performance and effects of criminal justice

Based on a Scottish case study, this article offers a critical reflection on criminal justice and the impact agenda. It will argue that the pathway to impact requires criminologists to interrogate more fully the inter-relationships between criminal justice as (1) political strategy; (2) institutiona...

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Autor principal: McAra, Lesley (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2017
En: The British journal of criminology
Año: 2017, Volumen: 57, Número: 4, Páginas: 767-788
Acceso en línea: Presumably Free Access
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Palabras clave:
Criminal justice policy
Cultural practice
Impact pathways
Politic
Praxis
Strafpolitik
Strafverfolgungspolitik
Strafverfolgungspraxis
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Sumario:Based on a Scottish case study, this article offers a critical reflection on criminal justice and the impact agenda. It will argue that the pathway to impact requires criminologists to interrogate more fully the inter-relationships between criminal justice as (1) political strategy; (2) institutional performance; and (3) embodied practice. Only by acknowledging the potential for dissonance between these dimensions, it is possible for the discipline to evolve a praxis that is theoretically informed, sensitive to political, spatial and temporal context as well having the highest potential for real-world transformation.
ISSN:1464-3529
DOI:10.1093/bjc/azw015