Criminology

True Crime: Insight Into The Human Fascination With The Who-Done-It
Insights
July 17, 2023

True Crime: Insight Into The Human Fascination With The Who-Done-It

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Jeffrey Ian Ross on Convict Criminology
Social Science Bites
October 4, 2021

Jeffrey Ian Ross on Convict Criminology

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Roger Hood, 1936-2020: Compassionate Criminologist Dedicated to Justice
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November 17, 2020

Roger Hood, 1936-2020: Compassionate Criminologist Dedicated to Justice

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The Price of ‘Paying Your Debt to Society’ Extends Well Beyond Incarceration
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June 22, 2020

The Price of ‘Paying Your Debt to Society’ Extends Well Beyond Incarceration

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Bringing Realism to Criminology: Roger Matthews, 1948-2020

Bringing Realism to Criminology: Roger Matthews, 1948-2020

Roger Matthews, one a group of influential British criminologists who challenged both the dominant rightist “administrative” conception of law and order and what they viewed an idealistic perspective of crime from the left, has died from the effects of the coronavirus.

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A Reformer of Criminal Justice: Joan Petersilia, 1951-2019

A Reformer of Criminal Justice: Joan Petersilia, 1951-2019

Remembering criminologist Joan Petersilia who spent her career examining the agencies that conduct U.S. criminal justice, and whose solidly evidence-based work was a major influence in affecting corrections and sentencing reforms.

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The Politician in the Pocket

The Politician in the Pocket

David Canter reviews The Handbook of Organised Crime and Politics. Its crucial findings drawn from across studies in Europe, the Americas and South East Asia, is that in many places politicians benefit from the support of criminal organisations. In turn those organisations require the backing of politicians.

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Is True-Crime Therapy?

Is True-Crime Therapy?

David Canter considers the possible impact on criminals of accounts of psychologists’ contributions to solving crime. “Typically, criminals do not have the intellectual abilities to study academic or true-crime to learn how to avoid detection.”

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The Civic Responsibility of Ethnographers

The Civic Responsibility of Ethnographers

What duty do social scientists have to report illegal activity that they witness as part of their fieldwork? If you answered quickly, you may not have thought about the issue all that deeply.

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Translating Research to Policy: Improving Justice for Women and Girls

Translating Research to Policy: Improving Justice for Women and Girls

A number of scholars drawn from American Society of Criminology’s Division on Women and Crime presented their evidence-based suggestions for the improvement of existing policies and legislation, as well as new legislative and funding initiatives, at the division’s first-ever congressional briefing in Washington, D.C.

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Alison Liebling on Successful Prisons

Alison Liebling on Successful Prisons

In determining what makes a successful prison, where would you place ‘trust’? Alison Liebling, director of the Cambridge University Institute of Criminology’s Prisons Research Centre, would place it at the top spot. As she tells interviewer David Edmonds in this Social Science Bites podcast, she believes what makes a prison good is the existence and the practice of trust.

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Social Science’s Impact on Society, Circa 2065: Rebecca Wheeler

Social Science’s Impact on Society, Circa 2065: Rebecca Wheeler

Social Science Space is presenting 10 shortlisted essays written by young social scientists in an ESRC competition looking at how social science might change the world in the next half century. This week we present Rebecca Wheeler’s hopes that applied cognitive psychology can and should improve policing.

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