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Public Confidence in Criminal Justice - A History and Critique (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018)
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Public Confidence in Criminal Justice - A History and Critique (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018)
Series: Critical Criminological Perspectives
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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 justice agencies has tended
to prioritise the production of quantitative representations of
general opinions, at the expense of more specific, qualitative or
deliberative approaches. This has occurred not due to any inherent
methodological superiority of survey-based approaches, but due to
the congruence of the survey-based, general measure of opinion with
the prevailing neoliberal political tendency to engage with
citizens as consumers. By identifying the historical conditions on
which contemporary knowledge claims rest, and tracing the political
power struggles out of which sprang the idea of public confidence
in criminal justice as a real and measurable object, Turner shows
that things could be otherwise. She also draws attention to the
ways in which survey researchers have asserted their dominance over
other approaches, suppressing convincing claims by advocates of
deliberative methods that a better politics of crime and justice is
possible. Ultimately, Turner concludes, researchers need to be more
upfront about their political objectives, and more alert to the
political responsibilities that go along with the making of
knowledge claims. Providing a provocative critique of the dominant
approaches to measuring public confidence, this timely study will
be of special interest to scholars of the criminal justice system,
research methods, and British politics.
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