Social Thought and Social Structure

Competing Paradigms in Criminology

Bibliographic Data

ID9680164
AuthorsCharles E Reasons (University of Calgary, corresponding author)
Year1975
Volume13
Issue3
Pages332-365
Publication date1975-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCriminology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0011-1384 • E-ISSN: 1745-9125
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1745-9125.1975.tb00673.x
OpenAlexW1815354336
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited62

The substantive area of criminology has increasingly become politicized with new paradigms arising to challenge the traditional perspectives. For the purpose of this analysis the voluminous amount of criminological research and writing is placed within three major paradigms: (1) kinds of people, (2) kinds of environments, and (3) power/conflict. The increasing articulation of the power/conflict paradigm has brought about an intensification of conflict in society and among criminologists. The future of criminology and subsequently of criminologists will be determined by the interplay of these and emerging other paradigms among academic criminologists and their competing expression among the public at large

Articulation (sociology · Criminology · Expression (computer science · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Social conflict · Sociology · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Law · Psychology · Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses