Impact and the Reflexive Imperative in Criminal Justice Policy, Practice and Research

dc.contributor.authorArmstrong, Sarah
dc.contributor.authorBlaustein, Jarrett
dc.contributor.authorHenry, Alistair
dc.contributor.editorArmstrong, Sarah
dc.contributor.editorBlaustein, Jarrett
dc.contributor.editorHenry, Alistair
dc.date.accessioned2023-12-19T22:05:50Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.date.updated2022-09-11T08:17:21Z
dc.description.abstractThis volume grows out of two parallel but distinct developments in social science research that affect the way researchers study and seek to have an impact in the areas of crime and criminal justice. These are the increasing acceptance and practice of (some form of) reflexivity in social science research, on the one hand, and, on the other, the changing context of research itself. On the latter point, we note that criminologists working across different jurisdictions are experiencing heightened pressures to render their research relevant and appealing to external audiences. These pressures are linked in part with the fact that governments in Australia, the UK and the USA (along with other countries) are increasingly keen to ensure that their investment in the higher education sector is delivering ‘value for money’. This implies that research and teaching activities that are government-funded must increasingly align with, or at least demonstrate alignment with, what these governments define as the public interest. In Australia, for example, the Australian Research Council, which is responsible for administering public research funding, has identified a list of nine strategic ‘Science and Research Priorities’ to organise funding of ‘support for science and research on the most important challenges facing Australia’ (developed partly from a 2014 white paper ‘Boosting the commercial returns of research’; see ARC 2016). With the possible exception of ‘cybersecurity’, none of these strategic priorities appear to be directly relevant to criminology or indeed, the social sciences. The specified research priorities relate primarily to what are known as ‘STEM’ subjects (Science, Technology, Engineering and Medicine), thereby prioritising an increasingly narrow set of subjects and research methodologies that reflect a pragmatic and in our view myopic governmental understanding of what constitutes societal value.en_AU
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_AU
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-137-54642-5en_AU
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/311003
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.publisherPalgrave Macmillanen_AU
dc.relation.ispartofReflexivity and Criminal Justice: Intersections of Policy, Practice and Researchen_AU
dc.relation.isversionof1st Edition
dc.rights© 2017 The Author(s)en_AU
dc.titleImpact and the Reflexive Imperative in Criminal Justice Policy, Practice and Researchen_AU
dc.typeBook chapteren_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage30en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.placeofpublicationLondon
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage1en_AU
local.contributor.affiliationArmstrong, Sarah, University of Glasgowen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationBlaustein, Jarrett, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationHenry, Alistair, University of Edinburghen_AU
local.contributor.authoremailu1126224@anu.edu.auen_AU
local.contributor.authoruidBlaustein, Jarrett, u1126224en_AU
local.description.embargo2099-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIESen_AU
local.description.refereedYes
local.identifier.absfor440200 - Criminologyen_AU
local.identifier.absseo230400 - Justice and the lawen_AU
local.identifier.ariespublicationa383154xPUB33857en_AU
local.identifier.doi10.1057/978-1-137-54642-5_1en_AU
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-85066242973
local.identifier.uidSubmittedBya383154en_AU
local.publisher.urlhttps://link.springer.com/en_AU
local.type.statusPublished Versionen_AU

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