Routledge handbook of public criminologies / Kathryn Henne & Rita Shah.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Agozino, Biko.

Contributor:

Henne, Kathryn E., 1982- editor.

Shah, Rita, editor.

Series:

Routledge International Handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criminology.

Criminal law--Public opinion.

Criminal law.

Criminology--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (314 pages) : illustrations (black and white)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Handbook of public criminologies

Public criminologies

Place of Publication:

New York, New York ; London : Routledge, [2020]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Featuring contributions from scholars from across the globe, Routledge Handbook of Public Criminologies is a comprehensive resource that addresses the challenges related to public conversations around crime and policy. In an era of fake news, misguided rhetoric about immigrants and refugees, and efforts to toughen criminal laws, criminologists seeking to engage publicly around crime and policy arguably face an uphill battle. This handbook outlines the foundations of and developments in public criminology, underscoring the need to not only understand earlier ideas and debates, but also how scholars pursue public-facing work through various approaches. The first of its kind, this collection captures diverse and critical perspectives on the practices and challenges of actually doing public criminology. The book presents real-world examples that help readers better understand the nature of public criminological work, as well as the structural and institutional barriers and enablers of engaging wider audiences. Contributors address policies around crime and crime control, media landscapes, and changing political dynamics. In examining attempts to bridge the gaps between scholarship, activism, and outreach, the essays featured here capture important tensions related to inequality and social difference, including the ways in which criminology can be complicit in perpetuating inequitable practices and structures, and how public criminology aims--but sometimes fails--to address them. The depth and breadth of material in the book will appeal to a wide range of academics, students, and practitioners. It is an important resource for early career researchers, more established scholars, and professionals, with accessible content that can also be used in upper-level undergraduate classes.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

Foreword: The State of Public Criminology-Progress and Challenges

Introduction: Public Criminology Reconsidered-An Invitation

PART I The Emergence of Public Criminologies

1 Everything Still to Play for: Revisiting "Public Criminologies: Diverse Perspectives on Academia and Policy"

2 Re-thinking Public Criminology: Politics, Paradoxes, and Challenges

3 Where Is the Public in Public Criminology? Towards a Participatory Public Criminology

4 The Challenge of Transformative Justice: Insurgent Knowledge and Public Criminology

5 Articulation of Liberation Criminologies and Public Criminologies: Advancing a Countersystem Approach and Decolonization Paradigm

PART II Engaging Publics

6 A Revolution in Prosecution: The Campaign to End Mass Incarceration in Philadelphia

7 Reflections from an Accidental Public Scholar

8 Engaging the Public: Access to Justice for Those Most Vulnerable

9 Public Feminist Criminologies: Reflections on the Activist-Scholar in Violence against Women Policy

10 Liberating Abortion Pills in Legally Restricted Settings: Activism as Public Criminology

PART III Barriers and Challenges

11 Strangers Within: Carving Out a Role for Engaged Scholarship in the University Space

12 The Push and Pull of Going "Public": Barriers and Risks to Mobilizing Criminological Knowledge

13 Public Criminology in China: Neither Public nor Criminology

14 A Case for a Public Pacific Criminology?

15 The Challenges of Academics Engaging in Environmental Justice Activism

PART IV Critiques and Critical Reflections

16 You're a Criminologist? What Can You Offer Us? Interrogating Criminological Expertise in the Context of White Collar Crime.

17 Our North Is the South: Lessons from Researching Police-Community Encounters in São Paulo and Los Angeles

18 Confronting Politics of Death in Papua

19 Rethinking How "the Public" Counts in Public Criminology

20 Does the Public Need Criminology?

PART V Future Trajectories

21 Starting the Conversation in the Classroom: Pedagogy as Public Criminology

22 You Are on Indigenous Land: Acknowledgment and Action in Criminology

23 Time to Think about Patriarchy? Public Criminology in an Era of Misogyny

24 Value-Responsible Design and Sexual Violence Interventions: Engaging Value-Hypotheses in Making the Criminological Imagination

25 Abolitionism as a Philosophy of Hope: "Inside-Outsiders" and the Reclaiming of Democracy

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781351066105

1351066102

9781351066099

1351066099

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351066105