04859nam 22007215 450 991030004780332120200705141104.03-319-67897-310.1007/978-3-319-67897-9(CKB)4100000001382327(DE-He213)978-3-319-67897-9(MiAaPQ)EBC5183863(PPN)222229616(EXLCZ)99410000000138232720171206d2018 u| 0engurnn|008mamaatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierPublic Confidence in Criminal Justice A History and Critique /by Elizabeth R. Turner1st ed. 2018.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2018.1 online resource (XIII, 135 p.) Critical Criminological Perspectives3-319-67896-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.Critical Criminological PerspectivesCriminal justice, Administration ofMass media and crimeCrime—Sociological aspectsCriminologyResearchPublic policyGreat Britain—Politics and governmentCriminal Justicehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/1BB010Crime and the Mediahttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/1BA000Crime and Societyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/1B3000Research Methods in Criminologyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/1BF000Public Policyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/911060British Politicshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/911120Great BritainfastCriminal justice, Administration of.Mass media and crime.Crime—Sociological aspects.Criminology.Research.Public policy.Great Britain—Politics and government.Criminal Justice.Crime and the Media.Crime and Society.Research Methods in Criminology.Public Policy.British Politics.347.4105Turner Elizabeth Rauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut995619BOOK9910300047803321Public Confidence in Criminal Justice2281426UNINA