RT Article
T1 Can criminologists change the world?: critical reflections on the politics, performance and effects of criminal justice
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 57
IS 4
SP 767
OP 788
A1 McAra, Lesley
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1565008359
AB 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.
K1 Impact pathways
K1 Cultural practice
K1 Politic
K1 Criminal justice policy
K1 Praxis
K1 Strafverfolgungspolitik
K1 Strafverfolgungspraxis
K1 Strafpolitik
DO 10.1093/bjc/azw015