Critical thinking about the uses of research
Tim Hope and Reece Walters, Critical thinking about the uses of research (June 2008)
Part of a CCJS monograph series under the general title of ‘Evidence based policy', these key essays both restate and update the arguments that Professors Walters and Hope originally presented at the 2006 British Society of Criminology annual conference where Tim Hope of Keele University debated with Home Office officials about the management and publication of Home Office commissioned research. Professor Hope was also invited to give evidence to the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee on the issues he had raised in relation to the Government’s handling of Home Office output.
Reece Walters - Government manipulation of criminological knowledge and policies of deceit.
Tim Hope - A firing squad to shoot the messenger: Home Office peer review of research.
