caa a22 4500 463173619 CHVBK 20180406164820.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20071201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10612-007-9040-6 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10612-007-9040-6 Babble: A Theater in Justice and Discourse [Elektronische Daten] [John Crank, Kate King] The world studied by empirical criminal justice research is babble—a congeries of voices whose meanings represent many normative worlds. Our research designs provide a frame for the babble, and our statistics codify and simplify it. We provide analytic portraits of it and, using the substantive language of crime control, give those portraits meaning. Yet, those meanings are located in a crime control discourse that de-legitimizes and destroys those normative worlds. This paper, an interpretive montage, is a collection of fractured narratives assembled to show that interpretation has something to offer the way we think about knowledge production in the field of criminal justice. It is also a cautionary tale to students in criminal justice, to remember that our scientific abstractions are an abstraction from the underlying realities of human life, not a "deeper” or in some way more real understanding. Our aim is to move the babble—the humanity from which the voices emerge—back into the foreground of justice research. Springer Science + Business Media B.V., 2007 Crank John School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Nebraska, Omaha, 6001 Dodge Street, 68182-0149, Omaha, NE, USA aut King Kate Department of Social Work, Criminal Justice, and Gerontology, Murray State University, 101 S. Applied Science Bldg, 42071, Murray, KY, Australia aut Critical Criminology Springer Netherlands 15/4(2007-12-01), 343-363 1205-8629 15:4<343 2007 15 10612 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10612-007-9040-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10612-007-9040-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Crank John School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Nebraska, Omaha, 6001 Dodge Street, 68182-0149, Omaha, NE, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- King Kate Department of Social Work, Criminal Justice, and Gerontology, Murray State University, 101 S. Applied Science Bldg, 42071, Murray, KY, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Critical Criminology Springer Netherlands 15/4(2007-12-01), 343-363 1205-8629 15:4<343 2007 15 10612 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer