What is Criminology?

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Criminology is a booming discipline, but at the same time it is also deeply divided. This rich and diverse collection of essays addresses the key questions at the heart of the debate. What is criminology for? What is the impact of criminology? How should criminology be done? What are the key issues and debates in criminology today? What challenges does the discipline of criminology face? How has criminology as a discipline changed over the last few decades? Addressing all of these questions in 34 essays by some of the world's leading scholars, this volume reveals the deep fissures that threaten this vibrant discipline. There is disagreement over methodological issues - how best to conduct research. The subject matter and aims of the discipline are contested as traditional boundaries are tested and breached. At the same time there has been a narrowing of the terms of debate more generally as numerous new journals have been established for the various constituent subfields of the broader discipline. All of these factors give the impression that criminology is fragmenting at the precise moment that, as a discipline, it is so energetic and successful. Examining the nature of criminology and the current state of the field, the contributors outline their sense of and ambition for future development, challenging the discipline to be more reflective. Above all, it provides a record of the shape of the field at the close of the first decade of the new millennium. Dedication Foreword Acknowledgements Contents List of Contributors What is Criminology? An Introduction • Mary Bosworth and Carolyn Hoyle PART I: CRIMINOLOGY AND ITS CONSTITUENCIES 1. CONCEPTUAL ALLEGIANCES: WHOSE SIDE ARE YOU ON? 1. Criminology’s Public Roles: A Drama in Six Acts • Ian Loader and Richard Sparks 2. Some Advantages of a Crime-Free Criminology • Michael R. Gottfredson 3. Critical Criminology: The Renewal of Theory, Politics, and Practice • Eugene McLaughlin 4. Disciplinarity and Drift • Jeff Ferrell 5. The Global Financial Crisis: Neo-Liberalism, Social Democracy, and Criminology • David Brown 6. Against Evangelism in Academic Criminology: For Criminology as a Scientific Art • Pat Carlen 2. METHODOLOGICAL ALLEGIANCES: HOW SHOULD CRIMINOLOGY BE DONE? 7. Shake It Up, Baby: Practising Rock ‘n’ Roll Criminology • Kathleen Daly 8. Criminology’s Disney World: The Ethnographer’s Ride of South African Criminal Justice • Clifford Shearing and Monique Marks 9. Origins of Criminology • Nicole Rafter 10. Have I Got News For You? Media, Research, & Popular Audiences • Linda G. Mills 11. Sort Crimes, not Criminals • Marcus Felson 12. Studying Desistance from Crime: Where Quantitative Meets Qualitative Methods • Raymond Paternoster and Shawn Bushway 13. Criminology and the Role of Experimental Research • Mike Hough 3. POLITICAL ALLEGIANCES: WHAT IS CRIMINOLOGY FOR? 14. Criminology and Social Justice: Expanding the Intellectual Commitment • Beth E. Richie 15. A New Look at Victim and Offender—An Abolitionist Approach • Thomas Mathiesen and Ole Kristian Hjemdal 16. Remembering Criminology’s ‘Forgotten Theme’: Seeking Justice in US Crime Policy Using an Intersectional Approach • Natalie J. Sokoloff and Amanda Burgess-Proctor 17. Postcolonial Perspectives for Criminology • Chris Cunneen PART II: CRIMINOLOGY AND ITS BORDERS 1. THE LIMITS OF THE DISCIPLINE: WHERE DO WE DRAW THE LINE? 18. Putting Crime Back on the Criminological Agenda • Lucia Zedner 19. Transcending the Boundaries of Criminology: The Example of Richard Ericson • Aaron Doyle, Janet Chan, and Kevin D. Haggerty 20. Criminology’s Place in the Academic Field • David Garland 21. Why Can’t Criminology Be More Like Medical Research?: Be Careful What You Wish For • Shadd Maruna and Charles Barber 22. Criminal Justice, Not Criminology? • Andrew Ashworth 23. Criminology, Accountability, and International Justice • William A. Schabas 2. THE LIMITS OF GEOGRAPHY: DOES CRIMINOLOGY TRAVEL? 24. Transnational Criminology and the Globalization of Harm Production • Ben Bowling 25. The Missing Link: Criminological Perspectives on Transitional Justice and International Crimes • Stephan Parmentier 26. Why Compare Criminal Justice? • David Nelken 27. Visions of Global Control: Cosmopolitan Aspirations in a World of Friction • Katja Franko Aas 3. THE LIMITS OF THE ACADEMY: WHAT IS THE IMPACT OF CRIMINOLOGY? 28. Criminology as Invention • Lawrence W. Sherman 29. Criminological Cliques: Narrowing Dialogues, Institutional Protectionism, and the Next Generation • Kelly Hannah-Moffat 30. Offi cial Criminology and the New Crime Sciences • Tim Hope 31. Criminology: Science + Policy Analysis • Alfred Blumstein 32. Criminology, Bureaucracy, and Unfinished Business • Ian O’Donnell 33. Criminology and Government: Some Reflections on Recent Developments in England • Tim Newburn 34. Being a Criminologist: Investigation as a Lifestyle and Living • Alison Liebling Mapping the Borders of Criminology: Concluding Thoughts • Carolyn Hoyle and Mary Bosworth Index