Janus-faced Criminology: Negotiating the Boundaries Between Activist and Administrative Research

Irwin Rogers, Keir (2023). Janus-faced Criminology: Negotiating the Boundaries Between Activist and Administrative Research. In: Canning, Victoria; Martin, Greg and Tombs, Steve eds. The Emerald International Handbook of Activist Criminology. Bingley, UK: Emerald Publishing Limited, pp. 37–48.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80262-199-020231003

Abstract

This chapter examines the scope and value of activist criminology, and questions whether it should be defined in relation to its means or its ends. It also outlines the nature and potential value of something that the author describes as Janus-faced criminology – an amalgam of activist and administrative criminology, and one which therefore straddles two very different sets of goals and priorities. To explore these issues, this chapter draws on some recent work that the author conducted in the UK with the cross-party parliamentary Youth Violence Commission. Ultimately, the author contends that Janus-faced criminology has its place in advancing the causes of social and legal justice in the years ahead.

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