Tag: Criminology

The Politician in the Pocket

By David Canter | Published: June 19, 2019

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.

Posted in Bookshelf | Also tagged McMafia, Misha Glenny, Organized Crime | Leave a comment

Is True-Crime Therapy?

By David Canter | Published: June 17, 2019

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."

Posted in International Debate | Also tagged Psychology, Serial Killers | Leave a comment

The Civic Responsibility of Ethnographers

By Robert Dingwall | Published: January 9, 2019

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.

Posted in Research Ethics | Also tagged Alice Goffman, Ethics, Ethics regulation, Fieldwork, participant observation, Research ethics, Steven Lubet | Leave a comment

Translating Research to Policy: Improving Justice for Women and Girls

By Brooke Stanley | Published: November 18, 2018

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.

Posted in Bookshelf, International Debate, Public Policy, Videos | Also tagged Feminist Criminology | Leave a comment

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

By Social Science Space | Published: January 12, 2016

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.

Posted in Career, Impact, Recognition | Also tagged Cognitive Science, ESRC | Leave a comment

A Primer on Improving Proactive Policing

By Daniel Nagin | Published: May 15, 2014

When he was inducted as a fellow into the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences on May 8, Carnegie Mellon criminologist Daniel Nagin delivered a concise and pointed precis of modern research into proactive policing as part of his remarks.

Posted in International Debate, Public Policy | Also tagged criminal justice, Evidence-Based Policy | Leave a comment

Wanted: Crime-Fighting Profs to Nab Corporate Criminals

By Mike Marinetto | Published: March 25, 2014

Could it be that business studies is the new criminology? Given the hijinks we've seen in the financial world the last few years, Cardiff's Mike Marinetto makes that case that it could be.

Posted in Public Policy | Also tagged Business, The Conversation | Leave a comment

Lawrence Sherman on Criminology

By Social Science Bites | Published: May 1, 2013

The latest episode of Social Science Bites is an interview with Lawrence Sherman, professor of criminology at Cambridge University and a keen advocate of experimental criminology.

Posted in Audio, Public Engagement, Resources, Social Science Bites | Also tagged Crime, Lawrence Sherman, podcast, Social Science | Leave a comment

Making Sense of Crime Trends

By Richard Garside | Published: March 15, 2013

Much of the current confusion about crime trends is born of the tendency to bunch together a whole range of different harms and actions under the abstract category of 'crime'. This blinds us to where the significant problems are.

Undercover Pressures

By David Canter | Published: March 12, 2013

Some criminal investigations resonate over the years. Even if you’ve only had peripheral involvement with them, as in my case, they still keep throwing up important implications that are difficult to ignore. A case in point is the investigation into the tragic murder of Rachel Nickell on Wimbledon Common in 1992. Over twenty years later […]

The Myths of Offender Profiling.

By David Canter | Published: February 15, 2013

Recent publications have encouraged me not to keep quiet about this any longer. Now is the time to explain why I find the term ‘profiling’ so problematic yet get stuck with using it.

Posted in Featured, Impact, International Debate, News, Public Policy, Research, Research Ethics | Also tagged Big Data, Crime, criminal justice, Criminal Profiling, David Canter, Law, Police Reports, policing, Psychology, Social Science | 1 Response

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The Politician in the Pocket

Is True-Crime Therapy?

The Civic Responsibility of Ethnographers

Translating Research to Policy: Improving Justice for Women and Girls

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

A Primer on Improving Proactive Policing

Wanted: Crime-Fighting Profs to Nab Corporate Criminals

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