Participatory research as disruptive?: a report on a conflict in social science paradigms at a criminal justice agency promoting alternatives to incarceration

2008 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 387-412 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua M. Price
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Participatory Research ◽  
Criminal Justice Agency ◽  
Alternatives To Incarceration

scholarly journals Rapid, remote and responsive research during COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 205979912110085
Author(s):  
Jane Richardson ◽  
Barry Godfrey ◽  
Sandra Walklate
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Health Research ◽  
Applied Research ◽  
Data Gathering ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Research And Innovation ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Practical Recommendations

In March 2020, the UK Research and Innovation announced an emergency call for research to inform policy and practice responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. This call implicitly and explicitly required researchers to work rapidly, remotely and responsively. In this article, we briefly review how rapid response methods developed in health research can be used in other social science fields. After outlining the literature in this area, we use the early stages of our applied research into criminal justice responses to domestic abuse during COVID-19 as a case study to illustrate some of the practical challenges we faced in responding to this rapid funding call. We review our use of and experience with remote research methods and describe how we used and adapted these methods in our research, from data gathering through to transcription and analysis. We reflect on our experiences to date of what it means to be responsive in fast-changing research situations. Finally, we make some practical recommendations for conducting applied research in a ‘nimble’ way to meet the demands of working rapidly, remotely, responsively and, most importantly, responsibly.

scholarly journals Pathways to care and ethnicity. 2: Source of referral and help-seeking

2005 ◽  
Vol 186 (4) ◽  
pp. 290-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig Morgan ◽  
Rosemarie Mallett ◽  
Gerard Hutchinson ◽  
Hemant Bagalkote ◽  
Kevin Morgan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Help Seeking ◽  
Pathways To Care ◽  
First Episode ◽  
Criminal Justice Agency ◽  
Black African ◽  
African Caribbean ◽  
African Patients ◽  
Pathway To Care

BackgroundPrevious research has found that African–Caribbean and Black African patients are likely to come into contact with mental health services via more negative routes, when compared with White patients. We sought to investigate pathways to mental health care and ethnicity in a sample of patients with a first episode of psychosis drawn from two UK centres.MethodWe included all White British, other White, African–Caribbean and Black African patients with a first episode of psychosis who made contact with psychiatric services over a 2-year period and were living in defined areas. Clinical, socio-demographic and pathways to care data were collected from patients, relatives and case notes.ResultsCompared with White British patients, general practitioner referral was less frequent for both African–Caribbean and Black African patients and referral by a criminal justice agency was more common. With the exception of criminal justice referrals for Black African patients, these findings remained significant after adjusting for potential confounders.ConclusionsThese findings suggest that factors are operating during a first episode of psychosis to increase the risk that the pathway to care for Black patients will involve non-health professionals.

scholarly journals Surveys, Records, and the Study of Incarceration in Families

2016 ◽  
Vol 665 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Geller ◽  
Kate Jaeger ◽  
Garrett T. Pace
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Criminal History ◽  
Criminal Justice Agency ◽  
Administrative Records ◽  
Paternal Incarceration ◽  
Criminal Histories ◽  
Current Survey ◽  
American Children

More than 2 million American children have a parent incarcerated, making the consequences of parental incarceration for families a critical concern. A growing literature documents significant challenges not only among incarcerated men, but also among their spouses, partners, and children. Much remains to be learned about these experiences, however; and the data available for doing so are limited. In this article, we demonstrate how the quality of available data on paternal incarceration can be improved by supplementing a leading population-based survey of families with administrative records on criminal history from a state criminal justice agency. This administrative supplement provides only a low-end estimate of the extent of criminal justice involvement in our sample, but still increases the number of fathers identified with criminal histories by more than 20 percent. Building on such a supplement—in our current survey or future ones—could improve the identification of justice-involved fathers on a broader scale.

scholarly journals Are U.S. Professionals and Managers More Left Than Blue-Collar Workers? An Analysis of the General Social Survey, 1974 to 2018

2022 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 237802312110686
Author(s):  
Steven Brint ◽  
Michaela Curran ◽  
Matthew C. Mahutga
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Political Identity ◽  
General Social Survey ◽  
Blue Collar ◽  
Social Survey ◽  
Science Interest ◽  
Blue Collar Workers ◽  
Political Differences

Social science interest in professionals and managers as a left- and liberal-trending stratum has increased in recent years. Using General Social Survey data over a 44-year period, the authors examine 15 attitudes spanning social, economic, and political identity liberalism. On nearly all attitudes, professionals and managers have trended in a liberal direction, have liberalized more quickly than blue-collar workers, and are either as or more liberal than blue-collar workers. The authors find that the higher levels of education among professionals and managers, their tendency to adopt nonauthoritarian outlooks, and their lower propensity to identify with fundamentalist religion mediate their more liberal trends vis-à-vis blue-collar workers. Conversely, their higher relative incomes suppress the extent of their economic and criminal justice liberalism. The authors’ theorization links changes in the macro-economy to growing gaps in the composition of the two strata and the activities of politicians and parties to consolidate emerging political differences.

Measuring justice

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 399-421
Author(s):  
William Cullerne Bown
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Computational Framework ◽  
The Law ◽  
Conceptual Foundations

The possibility of measuring the success of the criminal justice system in distinguishing the guilty from the innocent is often dismissed as impossible or at least impractical. Here I claim to demonstrate that such epistemic measurement would only be difficult. All measurement consists of two steps, the acquisition of observations and their processing through a computational framework. The law has lacked both, but I have recently put forward a computational framework and here I set out how the necessary observations can be obtained. This completes the conceptual foundations necessary for the development of jurisprudence as a social science, for policymaking in the law that is rooted in rational concern for epistemic outcomes, and for us to fulfil the modern, trustworthy and democratic promise that our forebears found in Blackstone’s ratio.

Legacy Community School and the New Face of Alternative Education

Caught Up ◽  
2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerry Flores
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Alternative Education ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
World War ◽  
Criminal Justice Agency ◽  
School Officials ◽  
Behavioral Issues ◽  
Metal Detectors

Legacy is California’s newest version of “continuation” or alternative education. This school is housed in a World War II army barrack. Here, kids are searched, made to walk through metal detectors, placed on formal or informal probation, and subjected to perpetual contact with criminal justice agents. In this school we find the Recuperation Class. This class is a self-contained program for youth with “drug dependence and other behavioral issues.” Unlike the rest of the school, the local probation department directly funds this classroom. In this unique setting, the teacher provides instruction as the probation agent walks around, conducts random drug tests on students, questions youth about their behavior outside of school, and/or takes them directly to detention. Legacy school officials have granted this criminal justice agency unfettered access to their students in return for financial support. While the probation department refers to this well-intentioned process as providing wraparound services to students, I argue that this process resembles “wraparound incarceration” where students cannot escape the formal surveillance of institutions of confinement. In this institution, young women move back and forth between this school and secure detention.

Queer Criminology and Ethnography

2021 ◽  
pp. 268-287
Author(s):  
Vanessa R. Panfil
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Priority Areas ◽  
The Social ◽  
International Projects ◽  
Organizing Principles

This chapter outlines what is entailed by queer criminological ethnographies. It first discusses the methodologies and findings of notable ethnographic works about LGBTQ populations, including those not originally designed as ethnographies, and also briefly reviews relevant interview-based or participatory action studies. It next explores discussions of queer epistemology in queer criminological work and the social science enterprise to evaluate to what extent there is a “queer method” and what its organizing principles are (or should be). It then evaluates several debates relevant to conducting ethnography in queer criminology, including methodological and political considerations such as how to situate the work and whether traditional ethnographic approaches are appropriate. The chapter presents detailed descriptions of priority areas for future research, including international projects. The chapter closes with a discussion of policy implications that may emerge from queer criminology ethnographies, which are relevant not only for criminal justice settings but for criminology as a field.

A System of Pleas

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Plea Bargaining ◽  
Supreme Court Justice ◽  
Defense Attorneys ◽  
Majority Opinion

The title of this work references a majority opinion from Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy noting that the U.S. criminal justice system is no longer focused on trials but has become a system of pleas; that the system’s processes and protections need to adapt from trial protections to plea protections. Social science research likewise needs to expand beyond the courtroom and the jury room to address the multitude of factors involved in plea decisions and the influences at work on the various legal-system players (e.g., defendants, defense attorneys, prosecutors). This work is both a culmination of the current state of plea bargaining research and a call to action for future researchers. All of the areas addressed—from innocents pleading guilty, to prosecutors charging decisions, to mass incarceration and felon disenfranchisement—merge to create a picture of the current U.S. criminal justice system as it really is, and how social science can move forward within it.

Supporting justice-involved people with extreme complex needs in the Australian community: a third sector practice perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia Hanley ◽  
Helen Simpson ◽  
Juan M. Tauri
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Disability ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Third Sector ◽  
Relationship Building ◽  
Customer Relationship ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Criminal Justice Agency ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Effective Work

Purpose This qualitative research aims to explore staff perspectives on working effectively with people with intellectual disability who are in contact with the criminal justice system. Design/methodology/approach Taking a case study approach, staff working for a third sector community organisation were interviewed about the components of effective work with their customers. The staff supported people engaged in the Community Justice Program. Findings Staff consistently described relationship building as the most important part of their work. There were three components to relationship building: the process of relationship building, the elements of a high-quality staff–customer relationship and the staff skills needed to develop a good relationship. Originality/value This paper makes two contributions to the literature. First, it focuses our attention on a third sector organisation supporting people in contact with the justice system as opposed to a formal criminal justice agency. Second, the paper seeks to understand the processes and skills staff deploy to build a high-quality relationship with criminal justice-involved people with intellectual disability.

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