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Title: Not Another Medical Model: Using Metaphor and Analogy to Explore Crime and Criminal Justice (Report)
Author : British Journal of Community Justice
Release Date : January 22, 2010
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 297 KB

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Introduction The first part of this paper considers the use of metaphor and analogy in criminal justice discourse. When the attempt is made to understand complex phenomena like crime and criminal justice, metaphor and analogy are usually deployed. Invoking a metaphor proposes, or more often implies, that crime and criminal justice are like this. It will be argued that these 'figures of speech' (but also figures of thinking) exercise a powerful and tacit influence on the way in which people talk and think about criminal justice--an influence all the more powerful because tacit. Becoming aware of the metaphors and their influence may be a precondition of finding other ways of engaging effectively in the policy debate.