Public confidence in criminal justice : a history and critique / Elizabeth R. Turner.

Titolo

Public confidence in criminal justice : a history and critique / Elizabeth R. Turner.

Descrizione

Title from PDF of title page (viewed, May 13, 2019)
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, Turner shows 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 that a better politics of crime and justice is possible. Ultimately, Turner concludes, researchers need to be more upfront about their political objectives, and more alert to the political responsibilities that go along with the making of knowledge claims. Providing a provocative critique of the dominant approaches to measuring public confidence, this timely study will be of special interest to scholars of the criminal justice system, research methods, and British politics.

Editore

Palgrave Macmillan,

Data

Autore di contributo subordinato

SpringerLink (Online service)

Relazione

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-67897-9

Formato

1 online resource (xiii, 135 p.)

Lingua

eng

Tipo

a

Diritti di accesso

Publisher's Web site. Access restricted to the University of Catania community.

DOI

10.1007/978-3-319-67897-9 doi

ISBN

9783319678962
3319678965
9783319678979 (electronic bk.)
3319678973 (electronic bk.)
9783319678962
3319678965

Series

Palgrave pivot
Critical criminological perspectives
Palgrave pivot.
Critical criminological perspectives.

Files

2018_Book_PublicConfidenceInCriminalJust.pdf

Citation

Turner, Elizabeth R., 1980-, “Public confidence in criminal justice : a history and critique / Elizabeth R. Turner.,” Lex e-books - Collana, ultimo accesso il 23 dicembre 2024, http://ebooks.unict.it/omeka/items/show/162.