Crime, Truth and Justice (Hardcover)

Introduction  Part 1: Official discourse and modern societies  1. Official inquiry, truth and criminal justice, G Gilligan  2. Royal commissions and criminal justice: behind the ideal, D Brown  3. From deceit to disclosure: the politics of official inquiries in the United Kingdom, P Scraton  Part 2: Official discourse, legitimation and delegitimation  4. The acceptable prison: official discourse, truth and legitimacy in the nineteenth century, J Pratt  5. Truth, independence and effectiveness in prison inquiries, N Hancock and A Liebling  6. Police governance and official inquiry, D Dixon  7. The role of commissions of inquiry in establishing the 'truth' about 'Aboriginal justice' in Canada, P Stenning and C LaPrairie  8. Penal truth comes to Europe: think tanks and the 'Washington consensus' on crime and punishment, L Wacquant  Part 3: Official discourse as closure, healing or crisis management  9. From Brixton to Bradford: official discourse on race and urban violence in the UK, J Lea  10. Exhausting whiteness: the 1996-98 Belgian parliamentary inquiry into the handling of a paedophilia affair, R Lippens  11. Repairing the future: the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission at work, S Leman-Langlois and C. D. Shearing  12. Peace or punishment? N Christie  Part 4: Official discourse reconsidered  13. Official discourse, comic relief and the play of governance, P Carlen