Matthews, Roger A. (2009) Beyond ‘so what?’ criminology: Rediscovering realism. Theoretical Criminology, 13 (341). ISSN 1362-4806. (doi:10.1177/1362480609336497) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:34472)
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Abstract
There has been a growing concern about the lack of policy
relevance of criminology in recent years. Two influential responses to
this dilemma have been presented. On one hand, it has been
argued that academic criminologists should become more active in
mobilizing points of consensus about what works, while on the
other hand it has been suggested that there should be a division of
labour among academics and that the subject be broken down into
public, professional, policy and critical criminologies. This article
argues that neither of these responses are tenable and instead calls
for an approach that links theory, method and intervention with the
aim of developing a coherent critical realist approach that is able to
go beyond the existing forms of ‘so what?’ criminology.
Item Type: | Article |
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DOI/Identification number: | 10.1177/1362480609336497 |
Uncontrolled keywords: | administrative criminology,critical criminology,empiricism,intervention,liberalism,public criminology,realism |
Subjects: |
H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HM Sociology |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice > School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research |
Depositing User: | Mita Mondal |
Date Deposited: | 01 Jul 2013 13:15 UTC |
Last Modified: | 16 Nov 2021 10:11 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/34472 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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