The Historiography of Crime and Criminal Justice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23417907 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul Lawrence (0000-0002-2248-5294, Hong Kong Metropolitan University, corresponding author) |
| Editors | Paul Knepper (0000-0002-6329-9666), Anja Johansen (0000-0003-4019-5191) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Publication date | 2016-07-07 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | The Oxford Handbook of the History of Crime and Criminal Justice (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199352333.013.36 |
| OpenAlex | W2509997293 |
| ISBN | 9780199352333 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
This essay analyzes the historiography of the field of criminal justice history. It traces the development of four broad approaches to the historical study of crime, policing, justice, and punishment from the start of the twentieth century to the present day. The four approaches identified are characterized as positivist/empirical, theoretical, social, and cultural. Concentrating primarily (but not exclusively) on works focused on the United Kingdom, the essay analyzes the development of each approach in turn, considering its antecedents and impact. The final section of the essay highlights emerging areas of research (including digital humanities projects and historical criminology) and proposes avenues for future investigation.
Criminal justice · Criminology · Cultural Criminology · Economic Justice · Field (mathematics) · Historiography · Political science · Positivism · Punishment (psychology) · Social science · Sociology · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Law · Law in Society and Culture · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2023 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |