Overview
Considers the topic of Public Criminology from a teaching and research practice viewpoint
Discusses the role and impact of Public Criminology as a pedagogical tool to bring about change
Includes empirical studies, reflections on methodological and dissemination approaches, as critical commentaries
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About this book
This book discusses the role and impact of ‘Public Criminology’. It brings together a collection of key scholars who have been at the fore of empirical and practice work in relation to understanding how ‘Public Criminology’ can engender academic activism. Split into two parts, it focusses on academic activism and research methodologies, and public criminology and pedagogical practice. It includes chapters on a range of topics including Inside-Out teaching, it discusses the role of social scientists and step** outside of established research practices, and how students, the public and children can be engaged in criminological learning and issues to become agents of social change. It includes a reflection on how ‘Public Criminology’ has developed both in the UK and USA. It speaks to students, researchers and academics alike involved in teaching and learning within the discipline of Criminology and those who wish to evaluate practice and ensure their interventions have impact on commissioners and policymakers.
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Research Methodologies and Academic Activism
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Public Criminology and Pedagogical Practice
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Concluding Thoughts
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Reviews
"This important and valuable new collection takes the ongoing dialogue about ‘public criminology’ in two new directions. Rather than focusing on relationships between criminology and criminal justice policy and practice, the editors and contributors ask what it means to practice public criminology in how we research and in how we teach. In a sense then, this book invites us to attend to our own house, to our core tasks; and to clarify what it means in these activities to work for the public good or for what we Scots call ’the common weal’. As such, this is a timely book that should be of great interest anyone committed to exploring whether and how criminology can contribute to the development of safer and more just societies in which people and communities can thrive." (--Professor Fergus McNeill, Associate Director of SCCJR and Professor of Criminology and Social Work, University of Glasgow)
"For any discipline, the challenge is to move beyond its borders into the messy territory of practice, of partnerships, of engaging with the constituents of the discipline rather than just its proponents. This book engages thoughtfully and practically with this challenge, bringing the experience of its authors in all its messy incompleteness back to criminology and making the science respond to those to whom it is responsible." (--Professor Howard Sercombe, Head of School of Social Work, Excelsia College, Sydney.)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Debbie Jones is Professor of Criminology and Head of the School of Social Sciences, Swansea University, UK.
Mark Jones is Director at Higher Plain Research and Education and Visiting Professor of Criminology at the Centre for Criminology, University South Wales, UK.
Katie Strudwick is Associate Professor and Dean of Teaching and Learning at the University of Lincoln, UK. She previously held roles including Programme Leader and Director of Teaching and Learning for the School of Social and Political Sciences.
Anthony Charles is Associate Professor of Youth Justice and Children’s Rights in the Department of Criminology at Swansea University, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Public Criminology
Book Subtitle: Reimagining Public Education and Research Practice
Editors: Debbie Jones, Mark Jones, Kate Strudwick, Anthony Charles
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42167-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-42166-2Published: 20 November 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-42169-3Due: 04 December 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-42167-9Published: 19 November 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 341
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
Topics: Research Methods in Criminology, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights, Social Sciences, general, Crime and Society, Social Policy, Politics of the Welfare State