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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1. VerfasserIn: McAra, Lesley (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 2017
In: The British journal of criminology
Jahr: 2017, Band: 57, Heft: 4, Seiten: 767-788
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Criminal justice policy
Cultural practice
Impact pathways
Politic
Praxis
Strafpolitik
Strafverfolgungspolitik
Strafverfolgungspraxis
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Zusammenfassung: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