Applied Social Science? Academic Contributions to the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry and Their Consequences

Murji, Karim

doi:10.1017/s0047279409990687

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“…Although Criminology is not considered one of the traditional disciplines which rely on external engagement such as, for example, allied health, and business courses, there are calls for social science disciplines to increase public engagement for the benefit of society (Murji, 2010). There is reticence within criminology towards external engagement due to the risks of voyeurism towards vulnerable populations and the ethical dilemmas of the carceral tour, which may be seen to dehumanise prisoners (see, for example, Arford, 2017).…”

Section: External Engagement In Criminologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Embedding employability in the Social Sciences curriculum: reflections from an applied university

Cadet¹,

Griffiths

2023

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This paper reports on a process of collaborative reflection undertaken by the authors in their capacity as academic staff delivering employability-focussed modules to undergraduate criminology students on large courses in a post-92 higher education institution (HEI) in the United Kingdom (UK). First, the broad context of higher education policy and the criminal justice sector is explored. The setting of the reflection is outlined, including the format of the modules which form the basis of the reflection and the underpinning methodological approach taken by the authors. Three key thematic areas emerged from the reflexive process: engagement and relationship development with the external sector, student readiness, and the role of academic staff. Each and these will be analysed in the context of extant literature. Finally, the authors make recommendations for stakeholders and a model for embedding employability activity will be provided, aimed at an interdisciplinary audience.

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Section: External Engagement In Criminologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Embedding employability in the Social Sciences curriculum: reflections from an applied university

Cadet¹,

Griffiths

2023

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“…The limits to analyses of race in geographical housing literature has been repeatedly highlighted in the UK context (Finney et al, 2019;Markkanen & Harrison, 2013;Ratcliffe, 1998Ratcliffe, , 2009, with Lukes et al (2019) emphasising that racial discrimination in housing is so persistent because it is 'slippery', driven by a complex interplay of legal changes, policy shifts, and a mutating housing market. Yet, for all the capacity to describe complex patterns of discrimination, this literature often fails to explain (Murji, 2010), with race typically cast as a 'variable' in housing systems rather than constitutive (McElroy & Werth, 2019). This moves the focus from the structural to the individual, or, as Fields and Raymond (2021) put it, means race stands in for racism.…”

Section: Racial Capitalism and Housingmentioning

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Actually existing racial capitalism: Financialisation and bordering in UK housing associations

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This paper provides a critical intervention into recent geographical debates on racial capitalism, interrogating the role that Housing Associations (HAs), the main form of UK social housing, play in its (re)production. Housing Associations are institutional, third-sector spaces within which novel forms of financialisation and bordering take place. Race is central to these processes, but insufficient critical attention has been afforded to the intersections of class, race, and migratory status in extant research on UK HAs. Moreover, existing research into housing and racial capitalism is provincial in its North American focus, typically examining home ownership and private renting. We argue this is a significant lacuna given that new and multiple forms of racialised exclusion, inequality, and extraction cohere in social housing.There is accordingly a pressing need for a robust interrogation of racial capitalisms through UK HAs, and of the role of HAs via the conceptual lens of racial capitalism. In concluding, the paper argues for a new focus on 'actually existing' racial capitalisms, and the need for detailed analyses of the logics and practices of racial capitalisms across a variety of sites and scales, helping debates move beyond their conceptual heartland in North America.

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“…15. Indeed it is not commonly recognised in the ten year reviews of Macpherson that in various ways the MPS had already shifted from race to diversity as early as the middle of 1999 -and only six months after the publication of the Macpherson report (Murji, 2010).…”

Section: Politics Of Enumeration and Categorizationmentioning

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2014

International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy

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If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation. AbstractPurpose -The purpose of this paper is to examine the inter-relationship between target setting, racial categories and racism via the case of a race employment target set for the police. Drawing on and extending public administration and governmentality perspectives, the work explores the shifting politics of enumeration and categorisation within a set of organisational manoeuvres. Design/methodology/approach -The data are qualitative and mainly based on interviews with senior figures involved in managing the organisational response to the target, as well as some documentary sources. Findings -The discussion reveals that both racial enumeration and categorisation are contested rather than fixed, but that debates about it ebb and flow in variable and uneven ways. They are the subject of manoeuvring around the number itself and of what counts as race. This indicates the complexity of governing race targets, which appear set but are made fluid in various ways.Research limitations/implications -The research is based on interviews with senior and prominent figures involved in governance who spoke "off the record", as described in the paper. These conversations are not in the public domain and the justification for using them is that they reveal the thinking behind the public debate about the black and minority ethnic (BME) target, as well as a process of negotiation and manoeuvring. Originality/value -The BME target has been the subject of considerable media and political attention, plus some academic research. The paper presents a new and unique account of the target as it was implemented. It is of value to researchers interested in racism and policing interested in the organisational background that shaped the public debates about the target.

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Applied Social Science? Academic Contributions to the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry and Their Consequences

Cited by 15 publications

References 16 publications

Embedding employability in the Social Sciences curriculum: reflections from an applied university

Embedding employability in the Social Sciences curriculum: reflections from an applied university

Actually existing racial capitalism: Financialisation and bordering in UK housing associations

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