Negotiated measures: The institutional micropolitics of official criminal justice statistics

2025-02-17 Classification：Philosophy Click()
Author：Haggerty, KD

Article Title：Negotiated measures: The institutional micropolitics of official criminal justice statistics

Abstract：
This paper examines some of the background social and institutional practices involved in the production of official statistics about crime and criminal justice. It documents how a host of micropolitical considerations impinge on what studies are conducted, which agencies control official data, and how measures are standardized. The communication of statistical facts is also shown to be influenced by a concern to prospectively manage the political symbolism of popular accounts about clime and criminal justice statistics. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.

Keywords: politics of statistics; Canadian centre for justice statistics; crime statistics; measuring crime; governance and quantification

DOI: 10.1016/S0039-3681(01)00018-8

Source：STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

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