Crime, truth and justice official inquiry, discourse, knowledge

"How do we find out about what is happening in relation to crime, policing and the punishment of offenders? One of the most significant, but largely neglected, sources of this knowledge is the official inquiry. In this book a distinguished team of contributors investigate the structures and pro...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Gilligan, George P. (-), Pratt, John, 1949-
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cullompton, Devon, UK ; Portland, Or. : Willan 2004.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b40505790*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Official inquiry, truth, and criminal justice / George Gilligan
  • Royal commissions and criminal justice: behind the ideal / David Brown
  • From deceit to disclosure: the politics of official inquiries in the United Kingdom / Phil Scraton
  • The acceptable prison: official discourse, truth, and legitimacy in the nineteenth century / John Pratt
  • Truth, independence, and effectiveness in prison inquiries / Nigel Hancock and Alison Liebling
  • Police governance and official inquiry / David Dixon
  • 'Politics by other means': the role of commissions of inquiry in establishing the 'truth' about 'aboriginal justice' in Canada / Philip Stenning and Carol LaPrairie
  • Penal truth comes to Europe: think tanks and the 'Washington consensus' on crime and punishment / Loïc Wacquant
  • From Brixton to Bradford: official discourse on race and urban violence in the United Kingdom / John Lea
  • Exhausting whiteness: the 1996-98 Belgian parliamentary inquiry into the handling of a paedophilia affair / Ronnie Lippens
  • Repairing the future: the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission at work / Stéphane Leman-Langlois and Clifford D. Shearing
  • Peace or punishment? / Nils Christie
  • Official discourse, comic relief, and the play of governance / Pat Carlen.