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Crime, truth and justice : official inquiry, discourse, knowledge / edited by George Gilligan and John Pratt.
Van Pelt Library HV6030 .C7448 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Criminology.
- Governmental investigations.
- Criminal justice, Administration of.
- Governmental investigations--Social aspects.
- Knowledge, Sociology of.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 285 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cullompton, Devon, UK ; Portland, Or. : Willan, 2004.
- Contents:
- Introduction: crime, truth and justice
- official inquiry and the production of knowledge / John Pratt, George Gilligan 1
- Part 1 Official discourse and modern societies
- 1 Official inquiry, truth and criminal justice / George Gilligan 11
- 2 Royal commissions and criminal justice: behind the ideal / David Brown 26
- 3 From deceit to disclosure: the politics of official inquiries in the United Kingdom / Phil Scraton 46
- Part 2 Official discourse, legitimation and deligitimation
- 4 The acceptable prison: official discourse, truth and legitimacy in the nineteenth century / John Pratt 71
- 5 Truth, independence and effectiveness in prison inquiries / Nigel Hancock, Alison Liebling 89
- 6 Police governance and official inquiry / David Dixon 115
- 7 'Politics by other means': the role of commissions of inquiry in establishing the 'truth' about 'Aboriginal justice' in Canada / Philip Stenning, Carol LaPrairie 138
- 8 Penal truth comes to Europe: think tanks and the 'Washington consensus' on crime and punishment / Loic Wacquant 161
- Part 3 Official discourse as closure, healing or crisis management
- 9 From Brixton to Bradford: official discourse on race and urban violence in the United Kingdom / John Lea 183
- 10 Exhausting whiteness: the 1996-98 Belgian parliamentary inquiry into the handling of a paedophilia affair / Ronnie Lippens 204
- 11 Repairing the future: the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission at work / Stephane Leman-Langlois, Clifford D. Shearing 222
- 12 Peace or punishment? / Nils Christie 243
- Part 4 Official discourse reconsidered
- 13 Official discourse, comic relief and the play of governance / Pat Carlen 259.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lipman Criminology Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1843920271
- OCLC:
- 52782963
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