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What is Criminology?

What is Criminology?

Author: Mary Bosworth; Carolyn Hoyle
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199659920
Published In: May 2012
Format: Paperback , 592 pages
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An indispensible guide for all academics and students of criminology, providing a critical assessment of the current state and future directions of the discipline
Includes specially-commissioned contributions from leading scholars including Andrew Ashworth, Alfred Blumstein, Pat Carlen, Kathy Daly, David Garland, Michael Gottfredson, Ian Loader, Beth Rochie, William Schabas, and Lucia Zedner, with a preface by John Braithwaite

Criminology is a booming discipline, yet one which can appear divided and fractious. In this rich and diverse collection of essays, some of the world's leading criminologists respond to a series of questions designed to investigate the state, impact, and future challenges of the discipline: 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?

The resulting essays identify a series of intellectual, methodological, and ideological borders. Borders, in criminology as elsewhere, are policed, yet they are also frequently transgressed; criminologists can and do move across them to plunder, admire, or learn from other regions. While some boundaries may be more difficult or dangerous to cross than others it is rare to find an entirely secluded locale or community.

In traversing ideological, political, geographical, and disciplinary borders, criminologists bring training, tools, and concepts, as well as key texts to share with foreigners. From such exchanges, over time, borders may break down, shift, or spring up, enriching those who take the journey and those who are visited. It is, in other words, in criminology's capacity for and commitment to reflexivity, on which the strength of the field depends.

Readership: Advanced students and scholars of criminology; academic criminologists, sociologists, socio-legal and legal scholars; criminal justice policy makers and practitioners

Preface: John Braithwaite
Mary Bosworth and Carolyn Hoyle: Introduction
PART I Criminology and its Constituencies
1. Conceptual allegiances: whose side are you on?
1: Ian Loader and Richard Sparks: Criminology's Public Roles: A Drama in Six Acts
2: Michael R. Gottfredson: Some Advantages of a Crime-Free Criminology
3: Eugene McLaughlin: Critical Criminology: The Renewal of Theory Politics and Practice
4: Jeff Ferrell: Disciplinarity and Drift
5: David Brown: The Global Financial Crisis: Neo-Liberalism, Social Democracy and Criminology
6: Pat Carlen: Against Evangelism in Academic Criminology: For Criminology as a Scientific Art
2. Methodological allegiances: how should criminology be done?
7: Kathleen Daly: Shake it up Baby: Practicing Rock 'n' Roll Criminology
8: Clifford Shearing and Monique Marks: Criminology's Disney World: The Ethnographer's Ride of South African Criminal Justice
9: Nicole Rafter: Origins of Criminology
10: Linda G. Mills: He was a Woman: Pitfalls and Possibilities of Popular Audiences
11: Marcus Felson: Sort Crimes, Not Criminals
12: Paternoster and Shawn Bushway: Studying Desistance from Crime: Where Quantitative Meets Qualitative Methods
13: Mike Hough: Criminology and the Role of Experimental Research
3. Political allegiances: what is criminology for?
14: Beth E. Richie: Criminology and Social Justice: Expanding the Intellectual Commitment
15: Thomas Mathiesen and Ole Kristian Hjemdal: A New Look at Victim and Offender - An Abolitionist Approach
16: Natalie J. Sokoloff and Amanda Burgess-Proctor: Remembering Criminology's 'Forgotten Theme': Seeking Justice in U.S. Crime Policy Using an Intersectional Approach
17: Chris Cunneen: Postcolonial Perspectives for Criminology
PART II Criminology and its Borders
1. The limits of the discipline: where do we draw the line?
18: Lucia Zedner: Putting Crime Back on the Criminological Agenda
19: Aaron Doyle, Janet Chan, and Kevin D. Haggerty: Transcending the Boundaries of Criminology: The Example of Richard Ericson
20: David Garland: Criminology's Place in the Academic Field
21: Shadd Maruna and Charles Barber: Why Can't Criminology Be More Like Medical Research?: Be Careful What You Wish For
22: Andrew Ashworth: Criminal Justice, Not Criminology?
23: William A. Schabas: Criminology, Accountability and International Justice
2. The limits of geography: does criminology travel?
24: Ben Bowling: Transnational Criminology and the Globalization of Harm Production
25: Stephan Parmentier: The Missing Link: Criminological Perspectives on Dealing with the Past
26: David Nelken: Why Compare Criminal Justice?
27: Katja Franko Aas: Visions of Global Control: Cosmopolitan Aspirations in a World of Friction
3. The limits of the academy: what is the impact of criminology?
28: Lawrence W. Sherman: Criminology as Invention
29: Kelly Hannah-Moffat: Criminological Cliques: Narrowing Dialogues, Institutional Protectionism, and the Next Generation
30: Tim Hope: Official Criminology and the New Crime Sciences
31: Alfred Blumstein: Criminology: Science and Policy Analysis
32: Ian O'Donnell: Criminology, Bureaucracy and Unfinished Business
33: Tim Newburn: Criminology and Government: Some reflections on Recent Developments in England
34: Alison Liebling: Being a Criminologist: Investigation as a Lifestyle and Living
Mary Bosworth and Carolyn Hoyle: Conclusion

Edited by Mary Bosworth, Reader in Criminology, University of Oxford, Fellow of St Cross College, and Professor of Criminology, Monash University, Australia, and Carolyn Hoyle, Professor of Criminology, University of Oxford and Fellow of Green Templeton College

Mary Bosworth is Reader in Criminology at the University of Oxford and Fellow of St Cross College. She joined the Oxford Centre for Criminology in 2006. She is also concurrently Professor of Criminology at Monash University, Australia. Her major research interests are in punishment, incarceration, and immigration detention with a particular focus on how matters of race, gender and citizenship shape the experience and nature of confinement.

Carolyn Hoyle is Professor of Criminology at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Green Templeton College. She has been at the Oxford Centre for Criminology since 1991. She has published empirical and theoretical research on a number of criminological topics including policing, domestic violence, restorative justice, and the death penalty.

Contributors:
Katja Franko Aas, University of Oslo
Andrew Ashworth, University of Oxford
Charles Barber, Yale University School of Medicine and Director of The Connection Institute
Alfred Blumstein, Carnegie Mellon University
Benjamin Bowling, School of Law, Kings College, London
John Braithwaite, Australian National University
David Brown, University of New South Wales, emeritus
Shawn Bushway, University at Albany, SUNY
Amanda Burgess-Proctor, Oakland University
Pat Carlen, University of Keele, emeritus
Janet Chan, University of New South Wales
Chris Cunneen, University of New South Wales
Kathleen Daly, Griffith University
Aaron Doyle, Carleton University
Marcus Felson, Rutgers University
Jeff Ferrell, Texas Christian University and University of Kent
David Garland, New York University
Michael R. Gottfredson, University of California, Irvine
Kevin D. Haggerty, University of Alberta
Kelly Hannah-Moffat, University of Toronto
Ole Kristian Hjemdal, Oslo University College
Tim Hope, Keele University
Mike Hough, School of Law at King's College London
Alison Liebling, University of Cambridge
Ian Loader, University of Oxford
Monique Marks, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Shadd Maruna, Queen's University, Belfast
Thomas Mathiesen, University of Oslo, emeritus
Eugene McLaughlin, City University, London
Linda G. Mills, New York University
David Nelken, University of Macerata
Tim Newburn, London School of Economics
Ian O'Donnell, University College Dublin
Stephan Parmentier, University of Leuven
Raymond Paternoster, University of Maryland
Nicole Rafter, Northeastern University
Beth E. Richie, University of Illinois
William A. Schabas, National University of Ireland, Galway
Clifford Shearing, University of Cape Town
Lawrence W. Sherman, University of Cambridge
Natalie J. Sokoloff, John Jay College, City University of New York.
Richard Sparks, University of Edinburgh
Lucia Zedner, University of Oxford

"Over 36 chapters Bosworth and Hoyle's collection provides unsurpassed insight into the rocky, but nonetheless exciting, terrain to be negotiated in being a criminologist. It is essential reading for those already negotiating (and perhaps lost on) that terrain, and must surely become both a comprehensive and challenging resource for the orientation of newcomers." - Alistair Henry, Edinburgh Law Review