Values in Criminology and Community Justice

Malcolm Cowburn is Emeritus Professor of Applied Social Science at Sheffield Hallam University and Co-Chair of the British Society of Criminology Professional affairs and Ethics Committee. Marian Duggan is a senior lecturer in Criminology at Sheffield Hallam University whose research and teaching interests focus on gender, sexuality, hate crime victimisation and sexual offending. Anne Robinson is a senior lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University and leads the programme for probation officer training. She previously worked in youth justice and is a former YOT manager. Paul Senior is Professor of Probation Studies and Director of a contract research and consultancy centre, the Hallam Centre for Community Justice, at Sheffield Hallam University.

A brief introduction ~ Malcolm Cowburn;
Section One: Values of criminological theories;
Judging offenders: the moral implications of criminological theories ~ Simon Cottee;
Post-modernism and criminological thought: 'Whose science? Whose knowlege?' ~ Liz Austen with Malcolm Cowburn;
Marxist criminologies: whose side, which values? ~ David Moxon;
A contemporary reflection on feminist criminology: whose side are we on? ~Victoria Lavis and Tammi Walker;
Bringing the boys back home: re-engendering criminology ~ Anthony Ellis and Maggie Wykes;
New 'racisms' and prejudices? The criminalisation of 'Asian' ~ Sunita Toor;
The value(s) of cultural criminology ~ James Banks and David Moxon;
Justifying 'green' criminology: values and 'taking sides' in an ecologically informed social science ~ Gary R. Potter;
Section Two: Values in criminal justice;
A moral in the story? Virtues, values and desistance from crime ~ Fergus McNeill and Stephen Farrall;
The value of values in probation practice? ~Jean Henderson;
Developments in police education in England and Wales: values, culture and 'common-sense' policing ~ Craig Paterson and Ed Pollock;
Race, religion and human rights: valuable lessons from prison ~ Muzammil Quraishi;
The public-private divide: which side is criminal justice on? ~ Stephen Riley;
Working with victims: values and validations ~ Marian Duggan;
Money as the measure of man: values and value in the politics of reparation ~ Claire Moon;
Section Three: Values in research, policy and practice;
The Emperor's new clothes? Can Big Society deliver criminal justice? ~ Kevin Wong;
What's valuable, what's valued in today's youth justice? ~ Anne Robinson;
Economic values and evidence: evaluating criminal justice policy ~ Kevin Albertson, Katherine Albertson, Chris Fox and Dan Ellingworth;
Reflections on values and ethics in narrative inquiry with (ex-)offenders ~ Paula Hamilton and Katherine Albertson;
Working with different values: extremism, hate and sex crimes ~ Malcolm Cowburn, Marian Duggan and Ed Pollock;
Value for money? The politics of contract research ~ Paul Senior.