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Scholarship, Activism, and the Innocence Movement

Fri, Nov 15, 12:30 to 1:50pm, Foothill H - 2nd Level

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Fundamental to social scientific research are questions about objective versus interpretivist inquiry, the role of the researcher's values and ideologies in shaping their scholarship, and the responsibilities of researchers vis-a-vis activism. In this lightning talk, I reflect on my own research on wrongful convictions and the innocence movement in the United States, and how my own views about advocacy and scholarship have shaped and been shaped by those research efforts. I use my own experience as a launching off point to more broadly discuss criminology as a "science," arguing that personal values are inherent to the research process, and consider the ways in which researchers might balance their scholarship and advocacy.

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