Reflexivity and Criminal Justice

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xv

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2. Impact and the Reflexive Imperative in Criminal Justice Policy, Practice and Research

   • Sarah Armstrong, Jarrett Blaustein, Alistair Henry

   Pages 1-30

3. Reflexive Approaches to Criminal Justice Policy Research

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 31-31

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   2. Interpreting Influence: Towards Reflexivity in Penal Policymaking?

      • Harry Annison

      Pages 33-55

   3. When the Stars Align: Juvenile Justice Policy Reform in New South Wales

      • Elaine Fishwick

      Pages 57-79

   4. Towards Hope, Solidarity and Re-humanisation

      • Ruari-Santiago McBride

      Pages 81-100

   5. Policy as a Crime Scene

      • Sarah Armstrong, Anita Lam

      Pages 101-122

   6. Reflexivity in Statistics as Sociology of Quantification: The Case of Repeat Victimization Modelling

      • Bilel Benbouzid

      Pages 123-146

4. Collaboration and Knowledge Exchange in Practice

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 147-147

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   2. Criminological Knowledge and the Politics of Impact: Implications for Researching Juvenile Justice

      • Lesley McAra

      Pages 149-167

   3. Reflexive Academic–Practitioner Collaboration with the Police

      • Alistair Henry

      Pages 169-190

   4. The Shifting Legitimacy of Knowledge Across Academic and Police/Practitioner Settings: Highlighting the Risks and Limits of Reflexivity

      • Karen Lumsden

      Pages 191-213

   5. The Politics of Establishing Reflexivity as a Core Component of Good Policing

      • Dominic A. Wood, Emma Williams

      Pages 215-236

   6. Getting In, Getting Out and Getting Back: Conducting Long-term Research in Immigration Detention Centres

      • Mary Bosworth, Blerina Kellezi

      Pages 237-262

5. Positionality, Power and the Reflexive Imperative

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 263-263

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   2. Cartel Biographies: The Researcher as Storyteller and the Preservation of the Research Wilderness on the Inside of the Subject

      • Christopher Harding

      Pages 265-287

   3. Who Needs Evidence? Radical Feminism, the Christian Right and Sex Work Research in Northern Ireland

      • Graham Ellison

      Pages 289-314

   4. Insider? Outsider? Reflections on Navigating Positionality When Researching Restorative Justice Policing

      • Kelly J. Stockdale

      Pages 315-333

   5. Situated Perspectives on the Global Fight Against Torture

      • Andrew M. Jefferson

      Pages 335-356

   6. Ethical Criminologists Fly Economy: Process-oriented Criminological Engagement ‘Abroad’

      • Jarrett Blaustein

      Pages 357-379

This collection presents a diverse set of case studies and theoretical reflections on how criminologists engage with practitioners and policy makers while undertaking research. The contributions to this volume highlight both the challenges and opportunities associated with doing criminological research in a reflexive and collaborative manner. They further examine the ethical and practical implications of the ‘impact’ agenda in the higher education sector with respect to the production and the dissemination of criminological knowledge. 


Developed to serve as an internationally accessible reference volume for scholars, practitioners and postgraduate criminology students, this book responds to the awareness that criminology as a discipline increasingly encompasses not only the study of crime, but also the agencies, process and structures that regulate it. Key questions include: How can criminal justice policy be studied as part of the field of criminology? How do we account for our own roles as researchers who are a part of the policy process? What factors and dynamics influence, hinder and facilitate ‘good policy’?

• Reflexivity
• criminal justice
• impact
• knowledge exchange
• ethics
• policing

• Department of Sociology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

  Sarah Armstrong

• Menzies Building, Monash University, School of Social Sciences, Clayton, Australia

  Jarrett Blaustein

• Law School, Old College, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

  Alistair Henry

Sarah Armstrong is a Senior Research Fellow in Sociology at the University of Glasgow. She is widely published and her research focuses on prisons, policy and culture.
 
Jarrett Blaustein is a Lecturer in Criminology at Monash University. His research focuses on intersections between policing and international development.
 
Alistair Henry is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Edinburgh and Associate Director of the Scottish Institute for Police Research. His research focuses on policing and security, community safety, and the sociology of organizations. 

Policies and ethics