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Public Safety Regimes and Political Analysis in Criminology

Public Safety Regimes and Political Analysis in Criminology. Adam Edwards & Gordon Hughes Centre for Crime, Law and Justice Cardiff University http:// www.cardiff.ac.uk/cclj/index.html Presentation to the South West Branch of the British Society of Criminology, Plymouth University,

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Public Safety Regimes and Political Analysis in Criminology

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  1. Public Safety Regimes and Political Analysis in Criminology Adam Edwards & Gordon Hughes Centre for Crime, Law and Justice Cardiff University http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/cclj/index.html Presentation to the South West Branch of the British Society of Criminology, Plymouth University, 15th March 2012

  2. Overview 1.) Traditions of Political Analysis in Criminology 2.) Regime Analysis and Criminology 3.) Research Strategies 4.) Concrete research example: A Safer Cardiff? 5.) Abstract research example: Project URBIS See also, Edwards, A. and Hughes, G. (2012) ‘Public Safety Regimes: negotiated orders and political analysis in criminology’, Criminology and Criminal Justice at: http://crj.sagepub.com/content/early/2012/01/03/1748895811431850

  3. 1.)Traditions of Political Analysis in Criminology

  4. 2.) Regime Analysis and Criminology • The empirical focus of regime analysis has been defined as: • An agenda to address a distinct set of problems; • A governing coalition formed around the agenda, typically including both governmental and non-governmental members; • Resources for the pursuit of the agenda, brought to bear by members of the governing coalition; and • Given the absence of a system of command, a scheme of cooperation through which the members of the governing coalition align their contribution to the task of governing (Stone, 2005).

  5. 2.) Regime Analysis and Criminology • Now turn these concepts into 4 key research questions regarding ‘the particulars of local governance’ (Stone, 2005): • What specific concerns generate policy agendas? (e.g. criminal justice; risk management; restorative justice and social justice) • What motivates actors to participate in governing coalitions seeking to deliver these agendas? (e.g. instrumental and expressive rationalities) • What resources are relevant for the governing capacity of coalitions? (e.g. constitutional-legal; financial; organisational; informational; political) • How are the schemes of co-operation constituted through blends of shared purpose, selective incentives and established inter-personal and inter-organizational networks? (e.g. selective incentives and large purposes)

  6. 2.) Agendas for Public Safety

  7. 2.) Agendas for Public Safety

  8. 3.)Research Strategies: A Realist Approach KEY E1 E2 E3 E4 En Generalisation CONCRETE Abstraction Concrete research M2 M3 M4 M5 Mn M1 M6 Synthesis ABSTRACT E = Effects M = Mechanisms S = Structures S1 Sn S2 S3 Source: Adapted from Sayer, 1992: 237

  9. 4.) Concrete Research Example: Public Safety in Cardiff

  10. 4.) Concrete Research Example: Public Safety in Cardiff

  11. 5.) Abstract Research Example:Urban Security in Europe(‘URBIS’)(Reference: 518620-LLP-1-2011-1-IT-LEONARDO-LMP) • Project website: www.urbisproject.eu • Comparing governing arrangements • The Delphi method and futurology • Scenarios of public safety in an austere age: • Re-moralisation; Revanchism; Abandonment; Entitlement?

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