Offers a provocative, critical analysis of the prominent research agenda and its portrayal in the media

Presents an historical overview of the history of public confidence Draws on recent criminal justice cases which have gained prominence in the public eye

Autorentext
Liz Turner is Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Liverpool, UK.

Inhalt
Chapter 1. Public Confidence in Criminal Justice.- Chapter 2. Constructing Public Confidence.- Chapter 3. Deconstructing Public Confidence.- Chapter 4. Archaeology: Surfaces of Emergence for the Public Confidence Agenda.- Chapter 5. Genealogy: How the Public Confidence Agenda Got its 'Hooks' into Criminal Justice.- Chapter 6. Conclusion: Researchers and the Making of Political Worlds.