The Successes and Failures of Modern Criminology

Abstract

This history, like all histories, is highly selective. Its starting point is the 1960s and early 1970s. It was a point at which criminology emerged as a recognised subject area drawing freely on sociology, psychology, law and economics, resulting in the establishment of a multifaceted field of study which began to attract students in large numbers. Its exponential growth was fuelled by what Stuart Hall (1980) described as the ‘drift into law and order society’, with crime becoming firmly established as a major cause of public and political concern. Over the last thirty years criminology has become one of the fastest-growing subject areas in the social sciences.KeywordsCriminal Justice SystemCrime ControlCritical CriminologyRadical LiberalCriminological TheoryThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.