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Beyond ‘so what?’ criminology: Rediscovering realism

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
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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