Is cross-national and comparative research on the criminal justice system useful?

Tonry, Michael

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“…The concepts and techniques used to measure migration structure the understanding of this phenomena, and this also influences social discourse (Fassmann, 2009;Fassmann et al, 2009). Descriptive, longitudinal research which provides better knowledge on how to organise and operate criminal justice system research across national boundaries is needed (Tonry, 2015). International policies:…”

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Using crime data in academic research: issues of comparability and integrity

Ludwig

Marshall²

2015

Records Management Journal

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Purpose -Research into crime is reliant on data that is recorded and published by criminal justice agencies; data which is collected for other purposes. Considering the suitability of geocoded crime data for academic research purposes, this paper will demonstrate the difficulties faced regarding the availability, integrity and reliability of readily accessible criminal justice data. Design/methodology/approach -Data from two countries -England and Germany -were considered and set in a wider European Union (EU) context. Using the data received from requests made to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in England and openly published reports and data available from Germany, the authors provide a contextual picture of the availability and operability of data recorded by these agencies. Geocoded data that enable cross-national comparisons with respect to immigration, ethnicity and crime are particularly hard to locate, and conducting research using data (such as crime data) whose "integrity" is questionable in an academic environment becomes increasingly problematic. Findings -Analysing secondary data produced by a number of agencies are amplified due to the different methods of collection, management, retention and dissemination. It was found that even within England, the information provided by police forces varied greatly. Data in Germany were found to be more openly available and published electronically by a number of different criminal justice agencies; however, many of the issues apparent in English data regarding data integrity were also identified here. Originality/value -The need for good record-keeping and information sharing practices has taken on added significance in today's global environment. The better availability of comparable criminal justice data has the potential to provide academics with increased opportunities to develop an evidence base for policymaking.

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“…Direct comparisons have previously been cautioned against, as they could be misleading if demographic indicators between areas or jurisdictions are not considered. However, Tonry (2015) recently argued that comparative, cross-national research can help:…”

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Using crime data in academic research: issues of comparability and integrity

Ludwig

Marshall²

2015

Records Management Journal

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“…Comparative and cross-national research on criminal justice (i.e., police, courts and correctional systems) is continuously growing (Bennett 2004;Pridemore 2014;Sung 2006;Tonry 1998Tonry , 2015. For several decades, policing scholars in the Global North have developed a robust IJCJ&SD 21 Online version via www.crimejusticejournal.com literature base for the paradigms of hotspots policing (Braga et al 2014; National Institute of Justice 2009), community-oriented policing (Gill et al 2014;Maguire et al 2019;Skogang 2006), problem-oriented policing (Rogers 2010;Weisburd et al 2010) and procedural justice (Johnson et al 2017;Maguire et al 2016;Mazerrole 2013).…”

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The Colombian National Police and the Politics of Crime Control Evaluations

León

2019

Int J for Crime, Justice & Social Democracy

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The Colombian National Police inaugurated a comprehensive operational model in 2010. Informed by evidence-based law enforcement models from the Global North, the MNVCC, or the National Quadrant Policing Model, integrates core features of procedural justice, hotspots, problem-oriented and community policing strategies. Just under a decade old, empirical assessments of the model’s impact vary in quality and availability. While the Colombian National Police presents the model as a successful intervention, there is little consensus on the degree to which the MNVCC has affected crime rates or perceptions of insecurity. The core purpose of this paper is to offer insight into the political factors that enable this contradictory narrative. Relying on privileged access to high-level administrators inside the Colombian National Police and other institutions, this study explains how structural features of official crime data—with political incentives specific to the Colombian context—provide the basis for contradicting claims surrounding the MNVCC’s impact.

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“…The same programme, tool or model might be used in many countries (e.g. McFarlane and Canton, 2014;Tonry, 2015). If it is possible to transfer ideas, it follows that the practices that implement them must be comparable.…”

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Fish out of water? Introduction to the Special Issue on innovative methods for comparative research on offender supervision practice

Robinson

Svensson²

2015

European Journal of Probation

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This is the second Special Issue of the European Journal of Probation that has its origins in the ongoing work of a European academic network, the COST Action on Offender Supervision, which commenced its work in 2012. 1 The first of the Special Issues, published in December 2014, brought together a collection of articles on the theme of consent and cooperation in the context of offender supervision (see Morgenstern and Robinson, 2014). This was a theme that cut across the work of all four of the Working Groups that make up the COST Action, which address: Experiencing Supervision; Practising Supervision; Decision-Making and European Norms, Policy and Practice. In this second Special Issue, our focus is methodological, and the articles it includes were commissioned from two of the Action's Working Groups, whose members have been engaged in a common purpose for the last two years or so. That common purpose has been the development and piloting of innovative methods for studying aspects of offender supervision practice comparatively. To explain the specific origins of our methodological endeavours, it is necessary to revisit a review of the European literature on the practice of offender supervision that we conducted in the first year of the COST Action (Robinson and Svensson, 2013). This review, which collated overviews of research in 15 jurisdictions, reached a number of general conclusions. The first was that, notwithstanding significant variations between jurisdictions, there was surprisingly little empirical research into the 'everyday' practice of offender supervision in Europe. We further found that, looking across the studies conducted to date, two methods dominated: namely, interviews and surveys. This led us to conclude that extant research on offender supervision in Europe had rather more to tell us about what practitioners say they do, but rather less about what they actually do. A third finding was that the empirical studies conducted to date were overwhelmingly within a single jurisdiction, such that there was almost no comparative research on which to report. Indeed, we found only one study that included a comparative element in its design (Bauwens, 2011). Meanwhile, a parallel review of the research literature by members of the Decision-Making Working Group (Boone and Herzog-Evans, 2013) revealed a particular gap in research in relation to the construction of and reactions to breaches of community

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Is cross-national and comparative research on the criminal justice system useful?

Cited by 39 publications

References 39 publications

Using crime data in academic research: issues of comparability and integrity

Using crime data in academic research: issues of comparability and integrity

The Colombian National Police and the Politics of Crime Control Evaluations

Fish out of water? Introduction to the Special Issue on innovative methods for comparative research on offender supervision practice

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