Reflexivity and Participatory Policy Ethnography: Situating the Self in a Transnational Criminology of Harm Production

Exporting criminological innovation abroad: Discursive representation, ‘evidence-based crime prevention’ and the post-neoliberal development agenda in Latin America

“…Doing so may help northern researchers to develop richer local knowledge along with a sense of the knowledge politics that characterize a particular setting. This narrowed focus and improved understanding may also help them better anticipate their own harm-generating potential and identify opportunities that exist for promoting meaningful and inclusive dialogues between relevant stakeholders (Blaustein, 2014; Blaustein, 2015). Reflexivity means that northern criminologists should continuously reflect on their own role as knowledge producers and recursively confront any universalist assumptions that are embedded in their research and recommendations.…”