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1 online resource (xi, 285 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"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 processes of official discourse, exploring ways in which this produces forms of knowledge which are regularly accepted as the definitive truth about issues and which then drive the ways in which justice is perceived and understood." "Whilst the mechanisms that produce official discourse may vary according to different jurisdictions some clear themes nevertheless emerge in the book's wide-ranging analysis - in particular around the ways in which official discourse is increasingly contested and can be understood as serving a variety of roles and functions in addition to its capacity for truth determination."--Jacket. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Governmental investigations.
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Governmental investigations. |
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Governmental investigations -- Social aspects.
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Governmental investigations -- Social aspects. |
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Criminal justice, Administration of.
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Criminal justice, Administration of. |
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Knowledge, Sociology of.
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Knowledge, Sociology of. |
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Truth commissions.
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Truth commissions. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Gilligan, George P.
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Pratt, John, 1949-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Crime, truth and justice. Cullompton, Devon, UK ; Portland, Or. : Willan, 2004 1843920271 (DLC) 2004300809 (OCoLC)52782963 |
| ISBN |
9781134031719 (electronic book) |
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1134031718 (electronic book) |
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1843920271 |
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9781843920274 |
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