Talking Criminal Justice: Language and the Just Society Contributor(s): Coyle, Michael J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415697042 ISBN-13: 9780415697040 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $180.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2013 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Criminology |
Dewey: 364.014 |
LCCN: 2012033583 |
Series: Routledge Studies in Crime and Society |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.3" W x 9.2" (0.90 lbs) 152 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: The words we use to talk about justice have an enormous impact on our everyday lives. As the first in-depth, ethnographic study of language, Talking Criminal Justice examines the speech of moral entrepreneurs to illustrate how our justice language encourages social control and punishment. This book highlights how public discourse leaders (from both conservative and liberal sides) guide us toward justice solutions that do not align with our collectively professed value of equal justice for all through their language habits. This contextualized study of our justice language demonstrates the concealment of intentions with clever language use which mask justice ideologies that differ greatly from our widely espoused justice values. By the evidence of our own words Talking Criminal Justice shows that we consistently permit and encourage the construction of people in ways which attribute motives that elicit and empower social control and punishment responses, and that make punitive public policy options acceptable.This book will be of interest to academics, students and professionals concerned with social and criminal justice, language, rhetoric and critical criminology. |