New Directions in the History of Criminology

In the almost twenty years since Peter Becker and I convened a conference on the history of criminology, the field has witnessed a remarkable wave of new scholarship. This essay draws on the wealth of new research to reflect on some of the challenges facing historians of criminology: how to write a...

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Argitaratua izan da:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/chs,
Egile nagusia: Wetzell, Richard F.
Formatua: Article ou chapitre numérique
Hizkuntza:Anglais
Argitaratua: Crime, Histoire & Sociétés 2018
Sarrera elektronikoa:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Gaia:In the almost twenty years since Peter Becker and I convened a conference on the history of criminology, the field has witnessed a remarkable wave of new scholarship. This essay draws on the wealth of new research to reflect on some of the challenges facing historians of criminology: how to write a history of criminology that addresses the heterogeneity of expert discourses and embeds them within the larger context of discourses on crime in civil society; whether it is possible to develop a ...