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Book Review: Criminal Justice: Retribution vs. Restoration Eleanor Hannon Judah and Rev. Michael Bryant (Eds.) Bighamton, NY: The Haworth Social Work Press.

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Representing Theory and Theorising in Criminal Justice Studies: Practising Theory Considered

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Author	Frauley, Jon
Copyright Year	2005
Abstract	The author considers the role and place of theory in criminal justice studies. The argument is that the operation and interrogation of fundamental categories is integral to social scientific enquiry and if criminal justice studies is to resist a technocratic “protective service” orientation it must promote theorising and thinking conceptually via the texts which represent the discipline to undergraduates. Although theory is situated at the core of social science curricula, there is little or no agreement on its role or place in research and pedagogy. The dominant understanding of theory within criminal justice studies (including its sociological and criminological incarnation) is that it is something to be referred to. What is seldom emphasised in theory or methods texts is the practice of theorising. Texts that are designed to be the student’s first contact with the field of criminal justice studies, and which reflect broader attitudes toward social enquiry, seldom consider the methodological and pedagogical issues related to the production and role of analytic concepts and do not present social science as an imaginative or reflexive practice. Drawing on critical realist metatheory, this paper advances a distinction between social and sociological problems and social science and protective service toward illustrating that a social science approach to the study of criminal justice demands the operation and interrogation of analytic categories and explicit consideration of issues of epistemology and ontology. Works which seek to avoid this serve only to foster a passive rather than active engagement with their subject matter.
Starting Page	245
Ending Page	265
Page Count	21
File Format	PDF
ISSN	12058629
Journal	Critical Criminology
Volume Number	13
Issue Number	3
e-ISSN	15729877
Language	English
Publisher	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Publisher Date	2005-01-01
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Criminology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Sociology and Political Science Law

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