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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454356903321

Titolo

Crime, truth and justice : official inquiry, discourse, knowledge / / edited by George Gilligan and John Pratt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cullompton, Devon, U.K. ; ; Portland, Or. : , : Willan Pub., , 2004

ISBN

1-134-03171-8

1-281-33161-9

9786611331610

1-84392-438-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (298 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GilliganGeorge P

PrattJohn <1949->

Disciplina

364

Soggetti

Governmental investigations

Governmental investigations - Social aspects

Criminal justice, Administration of

Knowledge, Sociology of

Truth commissions

Electronic books.

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Crime, Truth and Justice Official inquiry, discourse, knowledge; Copyright; Contents; Notes on contributors; Introduction: crime, truth and justice - official inquiry and the production of knowledge; Part 1 Official discourse and modern societies; Chapter 1 Official inquiry, truth and criminal justice; Chapter 2 Royal commissions and criminal justice: behind the ideal; Chapter 3 From deceit to disclosure: the politics of official inquiries in the United Kingdom; Part 2 Official discourse, legitimation and deligitimation

Chapter 4 The acceptable prison: official discourse, truth and legitimacy in the nineteenth centuryChapter 5 Truth, independence and effectiveness in prison inquiries; Chapter 6 Police governance and official inquiry; Chapter 7 'Politics by other means': the role of commissions of inquiry in establishing the 'truth' about 'Aboriginal justice' in Canada; Chapter 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

Chapter 9 From Brixton to Bradford: official discourse on race and urban violence in the United KingdomChapter 10 Exhausting whiteness: the 1996-98 Belgian parliamentary inquiry into the handling of a paedophilia affair; Chapter 11 Repairing the future: the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission at work; Chapter 12 Peace or punishment?; Part 4 Official discourse reconsidered; Chapter 13 Official discourse, comic relief and the play of governance; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book is concerned to analyse the production of criminological knowledge, with particular reference to one of the most important institutions in the western world involved in this -the official inquiry. The core focus of this book is thus to investigate the structures and processes of official discourse, and the ways in which this produces knowledge on crime and justice - a much neglected topic in comparison to the attention that has been played to the role of the media in this process. The mechanisms that produce official discourse vary according to different jurisdiction, but some clear