In our conversations about the challenges facing Criminology, what has surfaced repeatedly is the question of responsibility and our own positions of privilege, together with re-imagining ways in which we can give back, to multiple publics, in multiple ways. Criminological knowledge previously assumed a demarcation between academic knowledge generation and audience consumption, with a direction of travel from the former to the latter. In the UK and the USA, these shifts were driven by governmental imperatives for research impact, by expanding student numbers, the globalisation of education, and by new media and technology. How these changes, together with emerging theories and ways of understanding the world around us, are integrated into Criminology, is of interest to the public criminologist and the intellectually curious. We share our curiosity about these shifts and consider how criminological knowledge creation relates to the criminal justice professional, the educator, the public, and the future.
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Title
Public Criminology
Publication Details
Public Criminology: Reimagining Public Education and Research Practice, pp.17-35
Resource Type
Book chapter
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan Cham; Cham
Copyright
The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Identifiers
99380532965906600
Academic Unit
Emerald Coast; College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities; Criminology, Criminal Justice, and Legal Studies