Babble: A Theater in Justice and Discourse |
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| Authors: | John P. Crank Kate King |
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| Affiliation: | (1) School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Nebraska, Omaha, 6001 Dodge Street, Omaha, NE 68182-0149, USA;(2) Department of Social Work, Criminal Justice, and Gerontology, Murray State University, 101 S. Applied Science Bldg, Murray, KY, 42071, Australia |
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| Abstract: | The world studied by empirical criminal justice research is babble—a congeries of voices whose meanings represent many normative worlds. Our research designs provide a frame for the babble, and our statistics codify and simplify it. We provide analytic portraits of it and, using the substantive language of crime control, give those portraits meaning. Yet, those meanings are located in a crime control discourse that de-legitimizes and destroys those normative worlds. This paper, an interpretive montage, is a collection of fractured narratives assembled to show that interpretation has something to offer the way we think about knowledge production in the field of criminal justice. It is also a cautionary tale to students in criminal justice, to remember that our scientific abstractions are an abstraction from the underlying realities of human life, not a “deeper” or in some way more real understanding. Our aim is to move the babble—the humanity from which the voices emerge—back into the foreground of justice research.
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