Contrasts in Punishment and the (usually) unacknowledged feature of social science research: good fortune
| Dates: | 4 October 2017 |
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| Times: | 13:00 - 14:00 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | methods@manchester |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, Adults, Alumni, Current University students, General public |
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| Speaker: | Professor John Pratt |
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Contrasts in Punishment: An Explanation of Anglophone Excess and Nordic Exceptionalism, by John Pratt and Anna Eriksson, was published by Routledge in 2012. Based on research that began in 2003 and involved six countries and four languages, visits to forty prisons and interviews with fifty ‘key players’, and examination of documents going back 200 years, the book examines how long term cultural differences are reflected in contemporary approaches to crime and punishment issues in these two clusters of societies. In this seminar, John Pratt will discuss how he went about doing this research, highlighting the importance of luck, contingency and good fortune in the development of social science research projects, as much as careful planning.
Speaker
Professor John Pratt
Organisation: Institute of Criminology, Victoria University of Wellington
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Room 2.07
Humanities Bridgeford Street
Manchester
