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Public Criminology? A Cool Read on a Hot Topic

By Jonathan Simor

In a world, like ours, where discourse and policy making concerning crime has "heated up," leaving criminal justice bureaucracies exposed to the raw and often unforgiving politics of crime, what role can criminologists play in producing a better politics of crime? This is the central question that leading UK criminologists Ian Loader and Richard Sparks ask in their important (and short) new book, Public Criminology?. The title takes off from the vigorous debate within sociology provoked by the interventions of my Berkeley colleague Michael Burawoy on behalf of Public Sociology. But while the book explores the debate and follows its extension among criminologists, it neither remains focused on that debate, nor stakes out a position within its terms...continue to full post

Full post as published by Governing Through Crime on August 16, 2010 (boomark / email).