Toward an Interpretive Criminal Justice |
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Authors: | Crank John P Proulx Blythe Bowman |
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Institution: | (1) School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE, USA;(2) Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA |
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Abstract: | This paper presents the academic field of criminal justice as an interpretive social science. The opening section discusses
academic criminal justice from scientific and interpretive perspectives, arguing that the terminology of “justice” is essentially
contested. The second section presents the key implication of a contested core terminology: that an interpretive approach
is the best way to develop the academic field of criminal justice. Section three reviews central elements of the Gadamerian
tradition, with an eye towards its application to the field of criminal justice. The fourth section considers two issues pertinent
to an interpretive criminal justice—the problem of interpretation in a field where professional practice is destructive to
other normative systems, and the contribution of an interpretive criminal justice to public policy. |
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