This book analyses the production of criminological knowledge, with particular reference the official inquiry. It investigates the structures and processes of official discourse, and the ways in which this produces knowledge on crime and justice.
This book analyses the production of criminological knowledge, with particular reference the official inquiry. It investigates the structures and processes of official discourse, and the ways in which this produces knowledge on crime and justice.
George Gilligan is Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Business Law and Taxation at Monash University, Australia. John Pratt is Professor of Criminology in the Schol of Social and Cultural Studies, Victorial University of Wellington, New Zealand.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction Part 1: Official discourse and modern societies 1. Official inquiry, truth and criminal justice 2. Royal commissions and criminal justice: behind the ideal 3. From deceit to disclosure: the politics of official inquiries in the United Kingdom Part 2: Official discourse, legitimation and delegitimation 4. The acceptable prison: official discourse, truth and legitimacy in the nineteenth century 5. Truth, independence and effectiveness in prison inquiries 6. Police governance and official inquiry 7. The role of commissions of inquiry in establishing the 'truth' about 'Aboriginal justice' in Canada 8. Penal truth comes to Europe: think tanks and the 'Washington consensus' on crime and punishment Part 3: Official discourse as closure, healing or crisis management 9. From Brixton to Bradford: official discourse on race and urban violence in the UK 10. Exhausting whiteness: the 1996-98 Belgian parliamentary inquiry into the handling of a paedophilia affair 11. Repairing the future: the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission at work 12. Peace or punishment? Part 4: Official discourse reconsidered 13. Official discourse, comic relief and the play of governance
Introduction Part 1: Official discourse and modern societies 1. Official inquiry, truth and criminal justice 2. Royal commissions and criminal justice: behind the ideal 3. From deceit to disclosure: the politics of official inquiries in the United Kingdom Part 2: Official discourse, legitimation and delegitimation 4. The acceptable prison: official discourse, truth and legitimacy in the nineteenth century 5. Truth, independence and effectiveness in prison inquiries 6. Police governance and official inquiry 7. The role of commissions of inquiry in establishing the 'truth' about 'Aboriginal justice' in Canada 8. Penal truth comes to Europe: think tanks and the 'Washington consensus' on crime and punishment Part 3: Official discourse as closure, healing or crisis management 9. From Brixton to Bradford: official discourse on race and urban violence in the UK 10. Exhausting whiteness: the 1996-98 Belgian parliamentary inquiry into the handling of a paedophilia affair 11. Repairing the future: the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission at work 12. Peace or punishment? Part 4: Official discourse reconsidered 13. Official discourse, comic relief and the play of governance
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