Values in Criminology and Community Justice / / ed. by Malcolm Cowburn, Marian Duggan, Anne Robinson, Paul Senior.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-1995
• MitwirkendeR: Albertson, Katherine,; Albertson, Kevin,; Austen, Liz,; Banks, James,; Cottee, Simon,; Cowburn, Malcolm,; Duggan, Marian,; Ellingworth, Dan,; Ellis, Anthony,; Farrall, Stephen,; Fox, Chris,; Hamilton, Paula,; Henderson, Jean,; Lavis, Victoria,; McNeill, Fergus,; Moon, Claire,; Moxon, David,; Paterson, Craig,; Pollock, Ed,; Potter, Gary R.,; Quraishi, Muzammil,; Riley, Stephen,; Robinson, Anne,; Senior, Paul,; Toor, Sunita,; Walker, Tammi,; Wong, Kevin,; Wykes, Maggie,
• HerausgeberIn: Cowburn, Malcolm,; Duggan, Marian,; Robinson, Anne,; Senior, Paul,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (384 p.)

The way we think about crime and the way that society responds to it are imbued with values that can determine what is considered important and what gets attention. Sometimes values that are claimed may not be the values expressed in practice, as we see in the multiple and confusing discourses about victims and offenders, punishment and protection, rights and responsibilities. This collection of writings considers values in crime theory, criminal justice and research practice, uncovering the many different 'sides' – to echo Howard Becker's famous phrase – that criminologists, policy makers and researchers take. It spans Marxist, postmodernist and feminist perspectives on criminology, analyses of the dynamics of race, gender and age, research methods and ethics, the working of the criminal justice system and engages with current debates about new challenges for criminology, such as the green movement and Islamophobia. This is a timely and thought-provoking collection which will be of interest to academics and students in criminology and criminal justice, and on professional courses, such as probation and youth justice practice.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Contents -- A brief introduction -- Notes on contributors -- Values of criminological theories -- Judging offenders: the moral implications of criminological theories -- Postmodernism and criminological thought: ‘Whose science? Whose knowledge?’ -- Marxist criminology: whose side, which values? -- A contemporary reflection on feminist criminology: whose side are we on? -- Bringing the boys back home: re-engendering criminology -- New ‘racisms’ and prejudices? The criminalisation of ‘Asian’ -- The value(s) of cultural criminology -- Justifying ‘green’ criminology: values and ‘taking sides’ in an ecologically informed social science -- Values in criminal justice -- A moral in the story? Virtues, values and desistance from crime -- The value of values in probation practice? -- Developments in police education in England and Wales: values, culture and ‘common-sense’ policing -- Race, religion and human rights: valuable lessons from prison -- The public–private divide: which side is criminal justice on? -- Working with victims: values and validations -- Money as the measure of man: values and value in the politics of reparation -- Values in research, policy and practice -- The Emperor’s new clothes: can Big Society deliver criminal justice? -- What’s valuable, what’s valued in today’s youth justice? -- Economic values and evidence: evaluating criminal justice policy -- Reflections on values and ethics in narrative inquiry with (ex-)offenders -- Working with different values: extremism, hate and sex crimes -- Value for money? The politics of contract research -- Index