1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910787146803321

Titolo

Persistent forecasting of disruptive technologies : report 2 / / Committee on Forecasting Future Disruptive Technologies, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, National Research Council of the National Academies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, District of Columbia : , : The National Academies Press, , 2010

©2010

ISBN

0-309-15745-5

0-309-14905-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (96 p.)

Disciplina

601.12

Soggetti

Technological forecasting

Disruptive technologies

Technological innovations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910300047803321

Autore

Turner Elizabeth R

Titolo

Public Confidence in Criminal Justice : A History and Critique / / by Elizabeth R. Turner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018

ISBN

9783319678979

3319678973

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIII, 135 p.)

Collana

Critical Criminological Perspectives, , 2731-0612

Disciplina

347.4105

Soggetti

Law and the social sciences

Mass media and crime

Crime - Sociological aspects

Criminology

Political planning

Europe - Politics and government

Socio-Legal Studies

Crime and the Media

Crime and Society

Research Methods in Criminology

Public Policy

European Politics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1. Public Confidence in Criminal Justice -- Chapter 2. Constructing Public Confidence -- Chapter 3. Deconstructing Public Confidence -- Chapter 4. Archaeology: Surfaces of Emergence for the Public Confidence Agenda -- Chapter 5. Genealogy: How the Public Confidence Agenda Got its 'Hooks' into Criminal Justice -- Chapter 6. Conclusion: Researchers and the Making of Political Worlds.

Sommario/riassunto

In this book, Liz Turner argues that survey methods have gained an unwarranted and unhealthy level of dominance when it comes to understanding how the public views the criminal justice system. The



focus on measuring public confidence in criminal justice by researchers, politicians and criminal justice agencies has tended to prioritise the production of quantitative representations of general opinions, at the expense of more specific, qualitative or deliberative approaches. This has occurred not due to any inherent methodological superiority of survey-based approaches, but due to the congruence of the survey-based, general measure of opinion with the prevailing neoliberal political tendency to engage with citizens as consumers. By identifying the historical conditions on which contemporary knowledge claims rest, and tracing the political power struggles out of which sprang the idea of public confidence in criminal justice as a real and measurable object, Turner shows that things could be otherwise. She also draws attention to the ways in which survey researchers have asserted their dominance over other approaches, suppressing convincing claims by advocates of deliberative methods that a better politics of crime and justice is possible. Ultimately, Turner concludes, researchers need to be more upfront about their political objectives, and more alert to the political responsibilities that go along with the making of knowledge claims. Providing a provocative critique of the dominant approaches to measuring public confidence, this timely study will be of special interest to scholars of the criminal justice system, research methods, and British politics.