Full Description
The values of criminologists, policy makers, and researchers don't always correspond with their responses to crime. This collection parses the many different "sides" these professionals take on issues relating to victims and offenders, punishment and protection, and rights and responsibilities. It explores the dynamics of race, gender, and age; the workings of the criminal justice system; the ethics of research; and current debates about new criminological issues.
Contents
A brief introduction ‾ Malcolm Cowburn;
Section One: Values of criminological theories;
Judging offenders: the moral implications of criminological theories ‾ Simon Cottee;
Post-modernism and criminological thought: 'Whose science? Whose knowlege?' ‾ Liz Austen with Malcolm Cowburn;
Marxist criminologies: whose side, which values? ‾ David Moxon;
A contemporary reflection on feminist criminology: whose side are we on? ‾Victoria Lavis and Tammi Walker;
Bringing the boys back home: re-engendering criminology ‾ Anthony Ellis and Maggie Wykes;
New 'racisms' and prejudices? The criminalisation of 'Asian' ‾ Sunita Toor;
The value(s) of cultural criminology ‾ James Banks and David Moxon;
Justifying 'green' criminology: values and 'taking sides' in an ecologically informed social science ‾ Gary R. Potter;
Section Two: Values in criminal justice;
A moral in the story? Virtues, values and desistance from crime ‾ Fergus McNeill and Stephen Farrall;
The value of values in probation practice? ‾ Jean Henderson;
Developments in police education in England and Wales: values, culture and 'common-sense' policing ‾ Craig Paterson and Ed Pollock;
Race, religion and human rights: valuable lessons from prison ‾ Muzammil Quraishi;
The public-private divide: which side is criminal justice on? ‾ Stephen Riley;
Working with victims: values and validations ‾ Marian Duggan;
Money as the measure of man: values and value in the politics of reparation ‾ Claire Moon;
Section Three: Values in research, policy and practice;
The Emperor's new clothes? Can Big Society deliver criminal justice? ‾ Kevin Wong;
What's valuable, what's valued in today's youth justice? ‾ Anne Robinson;
Economic values and evidence: evaluating criminal justice policy ‾ Kevin Albertson, Katherine Albertson, Chris Fox and Dan Ellingworth;
Reflections on values and ethics in narrative inquiry with (ex-)offenders ‾ Paula Hamilton and Katherine Albertson;
Working with different values: extremism, hate and sex crimes ‾ Malcolm Cowburn, Marian Duggan and Ed Pollock;
Value for money? The politics of contract research ‾ Paul Senior.
