Routledge Handbook of Public Criminologies

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Featuring contributions from scholars from across the globe, Routledge Handbook of Public Criminologies is a comprehensive resource that addresses the challenges related to public conversations around crime and policy. In an era of fake news, misguided rhetoric about immigrants and refugees, and efforts to toughen criminal laws, criminologists seeking to engage publicly around crime and policy arguably face an uphill battle. This handbook outlines the foundations of and developments in public criminology, underscoring the need to not only understand earlier ideas and debates, but also how scholars pursue public-facing work through various approaches. The first of its kind, this collection captures diverse and critical perspectives on the practices and challenges of actually doing public criminology. The book presents real-world examples that help readers better understand the nature of public criminological work, as well as the structural and institutional barriers and enablers of engaging wider audiences. Contributors address policies around crime and crime control, media landscapes, and changing political dynamics. In examining attempts to bridge the gaps between scholarship, activism, and outreach, the essays featured here capture important tensions related to inequality and social difference, including the ways in which criminology can be complicit in perpetuating inequitable practices and structures, and how public criminology aims―but sometimes fails―to address them. The depth and breadth of material in the book will appeal to a wide range of academics, students, and practitioners. It is an important resource for early career researchers, more established scholars, and professionals, with accessible content that can also be used in upper-level undergraduate classes. Contents List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Foreword: The State of Public Criminology—Progress and Challenges • Elliott Currie Introduction: Public Criminology Reconsidered—An Invitation • Rita Shah and Kathryn Henne Part I: The Emergence of Public Criminologies 1 Everything Still to Play for: Revisiting “Public Criminologies: Diverse Perspectives on Academia and Policy” • Lynn Chancer and Eugene McLaughlin 2 Re-thinking Public Criminology: Politics, Paradoxes, and Challenges • Eamonn Carrabine, Maggy Lee, and Nigel South 3 Where Is the Public in Public Criminology? Towards a Participatory Public Criminology • Stuart Henry 4 The Challenge of Transformative Justice: Insurgent Knowledge and Public Criminology • Michelle Brown 5 Articulation of Liberation Criminologies and Public Criminologies: Advancing a Countersystem Approach and Decolonization ParadigmBiko Agozino and Kimberley Ducey Part II: Engaging Publics 6 A Revolution in Prosecution: The Campaign to End Mass Incarceration in Philadelphia • Jill McCorkel 7 Reflections from an Accidental Public Scholar • Peter B. Kraska 8 Engaging the Public: Access to Justice for Those Most Vulnerable • Emily I. Troshynski 9 Public Feminist Criminologies: Reflections on the Activist-Scholar in Violence against Women Policy • Anastasia Powell and Ruth Liston 10 Liberating Abortion Pills in Legally Restricted Settings: Activism as Public Criminology • Mariana Prandini Assis Part III: Barriers and Challenges 11 Strangers Within: Carving Out a Role for Engaged Scholarship in theUniversity SpaceMonique Marks 12 The Push and Pull of Going “Public”: Barriers and Risks to Mobilizing Criminological Knowledge • Krystle Shore 13 Public Criminology in China: Neither Public nor Criminology • Jianhua Xu and Weidi Liu 14 A Case for a Public Pacific Criminology? • Miranda Forsyth, Sinclair Dinnen, and Fiona Hukula 15 The Challenges of Academics Engaging in Environmental Justice Activism • Joshua Ozymy and Melissa Jarrell Part IV: Critiques and Critical Reflections 16 You’re a Criminologist? What Can You Offer Us? Interrogating Criminological Expertise in the Context of White Collar Crime • Fiona Haines 17 Our North Is the South: Lessons from Researching Police-Community Encounters in São Paulo and Los Angeles • Sebastian Sclofsky 18 Confronting Politics of Death in Papua • Budi Hernawan 19 Rethinking How “the Public” Counts in Public Criminology • David A. Maldonado 20 Does the Public Need Criminology? • Vincenzo Ruggiero Part V: Future Trajectories 21 Starting the Conversation in the Classroom: Pedagogy as Public Criminology • Lori Sexton 22 You Are on Indigenous Land: Acknowledgment and Action in Criminology • Lisa Monchalin 23 Time to Think about Patriarchy? Public Criminology in an Era of Misogyny • Meda Chesney-Lind 24 Value-Responsible Design and Sexual Violence Interventions: Engaging Value-Hypotheses in Making the Criminological Imagination• Renee Shelby 25 Abolitionism as a Philosophy of Hope: “Inside-Outsiders” and the Reclaiming of Democracy • David Scott Index