![]() ![]() This particular one gives us a sprawling and deeply critical – in several senses of that word – attack on the current state of the criminological profession. Thank heavens, Jock Young still writes books. Even when criminologists and criminal justicians do write books, they are mostly steroidal dissertations, slavishly following the standard formula of “introduction, literature review, hypotheses and methods, analysis, discussion” – and heavy on the methods and analysis while thin on the discussion, at that. ![]() The profession is increasingly citation-mad, statistically-obsessed, and incapable of big thinking. The standard outlet for criminological research – indeed, scholarship from all of the social sciences – is the data-driven journal article. Cambridge, UK Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2011. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |