Abstract
Based on a Scottish case study, this article offers a critical reflection on criminal justice and the impact agenda. It will argue that the pathway to impact requires criminologists to interrogate more fully the inter-relationships between criminal justice as: (i) political strategy; (ii) institutional performance; and (iii) embodied practice. Only by acknowledging the potential for dissonance between these dimensions, is it possible for the discipline to evolve a praxis which is theoretically informed, sensitive to political, spatial and temporal context as well having the highest potential for real-world transformation.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 767-788 |
| Journal | The British Journal of Criminology: An International Review of Crime and Society (BJC) |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| Early online date | 11 Mar 2016 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Jul 2017 |
Keywords
- impact pathways
- cultural practice
- politics
- criminal justice policy
- praxis
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Lesley McAra
- School of Law - Personal Chair of Penology
- Global Justice Academy
- Centre for Homelessness and Inclusion Health within School of Health in Social Sciences
- Edinburgh Futures Institute
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