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These trends have spurred new studies, within an established tradition in criminology, of examining neighborhood effects on juvenile delinquency.
This edited volume is essentially a series of reflections on the past, present and future of critical criminologies.
Traditional criminology, it is argued, has resisted engagement with ' the elderly ' (sic) because it has focused instead on ' street ' and ' stranger ' crime.
Incorporating life-course perspectives helps to merge the individual and societal levels of change, but these perspectives did not initially appear in modern criminology.
He argues that criminology preserved a surprising amount of integrity throughout the period, for the most part resisting a simplistic biological and racial determinism.
First, there is a dearth of research on this issue, mirroring criminology's broader neglect of the criminality of women.
Her areas of expertise are criminology and criminal justice policy, housing and homelessness, drug and alcohol use, and qualitative research.
There are numerous theoretical inroads that this book could explore, including discourses on risk, governmentality, penal populism, political economy and in particular - cultural criminology.