Relations between Government Researchers and Academics

Tarling, Roger

doi:10.1111/j.1468-2311.2011.00666.x

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“…This orientation towards instrumentally applicable knowledge has become progressively more embedded in recent decades, due to the growth of in-house research and emergence of ‘market-led criminology’, whereby some academics tender for and accept government-funded research contracts. Either way, the research process is subject to close political scrutiny and overwhelmingly focuses upon assessing immediate problems and finding short-term solutions (Hood, 1987; Tarling, 2011; Walters, 2003). At this juncture, it is important to acknowledge that much in-house and commissioned research is of the highest methodological standard and has added immeasurably to a descriptive understanding of crime and governmental responses to crime.…”

Section: The Subjugation Of ‘Deviant Knowledge’mentioning

confidence: 99%

Access denied: Research on sex in prison and the subjugation of ‘deviant knowledge’

Stevens

2019

Criminology & Criminal Justice

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Despite the fundamental necessity of gaining gatekeeper approval for prisons fieldwork, researchers rarely publicly acknowledge and analyse their failures to secure access. Drawing upon the Foucauldian-inspired literatures on the production and policing of new criminological knowledge, this article presents as a case study the Sex in Prison research project, instigated by the Howard League for Penal Reform, and for which permission to interview serving prisoners was refused. This denial of access, it is argued, resulted from a politically motivated attempt to prevent the acquisition of knowledge perceived as likely to be unfavourable to and critical of prison authorities, emanating from ‘deviant’ informants, using ‘deviant’ methods and obtained on behalf of ‘deviant’ penal reformers. The troubling implications for prisons researchers are explored. The article concludes by highlighting the potential of formerly imprisoned people, as participants in research, to circumvent the limits to knowledge imposed by prison authorities.

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Section: The Subjugation Of ‘Deviant Knowledge’mentioning

confidence: 99%