Pracademics in Criminal Justice

Providing an in-depth interrogation of the practitioner/academic role within the context of criminal justice, this book outlines the benefits and challenges of different roles through exploring the lived experience of the contributing authors.

Di Turgoose is Associate Professor and National Teacher Fellow located in the discipline of Criminology and Criminal Justice at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. Victoria Knight is Associate Professor of Research at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. Darren Woodward is Lecturer at the School of Criminal Justice, Arden University, Coventry, UK.

Foreword 1. Introduction: Locating pracademics in criminal Justice PART 1: An Anatomy of the Pracademic in Criminal Justice 2. Applying Anthropology to Culturally-Conscious Criminal Legal Concerns 3. Intrapreneurship and criminal justice: Pracademia with purpose 4. The Never-ending barriers for the formerly incarcerated pracademic PART 2: Pracademic Transitions 5. Learning to Live with Liminality: Reflections of a probation pracademic 6. The role and experiences of Forensic Psychologist pracademics working within a Long Term and High Security prison setting 7. Pracademia: Lessons to be Learned when Transiting from Practice to Academia PART 3: The Application of Pracademia 8. 'When you have walked the walk...' Transitions from prison landings to Higher Education (HE) 9. Operationalising theory: The role of the pracademic in the pedagogy of student police officers 10. Filling in the gaps: Australian pracademics creating social justice impact in a criminal justice setting 11. The challenges of keeping it real: The role of storytelling and digital technology in probation training to explore risk and desistance 12. Exploring the Potential of Virtual Environments in Addressing Domestic Violence and Abuse in the pracademic classroom 13. A Foot in All of the Camps: A Personal Reflection of the Merging of Lived Experience, Practice and Academia