Ten Recent Criminology Textbooks
Diversity without Currency or Quality
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11064007 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard A Wright, Richard Wright (0000-0002-9884-7343, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 550 |
| Publication date | 1990-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Teaching Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0092-055X • E-ISSN: 1939-862X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1317650 |
| OpenAlex | W2313636388 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 8 |
Textbook bashing probably ranks second only to complaining about administrators as the most popular lament among academics. Criminologists certainly are exception to the rule-in the many workshops and roundtables on teaching criminology that I have chaired over the years, one striking consensus has been that there is no such thing as a good criminology textbook. Here I will show that this complaint contains much truth. This essay reviews 10 of the 12 criminology textbooks published from 1987 to 1989 (see Wright 1989), including the following
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From luminary to lesser-known
From vamps and tramps to teases and flirts
Critical criminological pedagogy in Canada
Rehabilitation affirmed, rejected, and reaffirmed
Do introductory criminal justice textbooks cite the most influential criminal justicians? Further estimations of the “match” between what journals report and what textbooks discuss
The Sociological Core
Taboo until today? The coverage of biological arguments in criminology textbooks, 1961 to 1970 and 1987 to 1996
The most-cited scholars in criminology
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,24 |
| Citation span | 1992 - 2004 (13) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |