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This chapter offers critical reflections about the challenges, paradoxes and opportunities involved in conducting international criminological research about innovative justice initiatives and creative ways of working with offenders. Engaging with people and pioneering projects at the frontiers of justice become even more intriguing and complex when these are to be done across cultures and national borders. Claims of ‘innovation’ and ‘success’ are inevitably relative and contextualised, subject to diverse interpretation and frequently contested. In this chapter, we briefly describe an international research initiative we are conducting, offering an analytical critique of its core components and some of the key questions that have emerged in the process.
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Graham, H., White, R. (2014). Innovative Justice: According to Whom?. In: Lumsden, K., Winter, A. (eds) Reflexivity in Criminological Research. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137379405_24
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