04340oam 2200733I 450 991045435690332120200520144314.01-134-03171-81-281-33161-997866113316101-84392-438-210.4324/9781843924388 (CKB)1000000000724509(EBL)449603(OCoLC)609842487(SSID)ssj0000293002(PQKBManifestationID)11277951(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000293002(PQKBWorkID)10273987(PQKB)11534371(MiAaPQ)EBC449603(Au-PeEL)EBL449603(CaPaEBR)ebr10338574(CaONFJC)MIL133161(OCoLC)826657795(EXLCZ)99100000000072450920180706d2004 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCrime, truth and justice official inquiry, discourse, knowledge /edited by George Gilligan and John PrattCullompton, Devon, U.K. ;Portland, Or. :Willan Pub.,2004.1 online resource (298 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-138-00193-7 1-84392-027-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 deligitimationChapter 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 managementChapter 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; IndexThis 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 Governmental investigationsGovernmental investigationsSocial aspectsCriminal justice, Administration ofKnowledge, Sociology ofTruth commissionsElectronic books.Governmental investigations.Governmental investigationsSocial aspects.Criminal justice, Administration of.Knowledge, Sociology of.Truth commissions.364Gilligan George P874246Pratt John1949-874247MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910454356903321Crime, truth and justice1951956UNINA