Public Confidence in Criminal Justice A History and Critique /

• Main Author: Turner, Elizabeth R. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Critical Criminological Perspectives
• Subjects: Criminal 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.

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 justi...

Table of Contents:

• 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.