Crime, Truth and Justice (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Gilligan, George; Pratt, John

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134031719
• Artikelnr.: 41218504

Autorenporträt

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