Recent years have seen increasing interest in, and scholarly discussion of, historical criminology. Yet there remains at present no clear, settled view as to what historical criminology entails, how it is best pursued, and what its future might hold. This article explores the several conceptions of historical criminology found in the present literature, which associate it variously with archival research, practical inquiry, a concern with temporality, and a certain approach to interdisciplinary scholarship. Adopting the view that historical criminology entails a special regard for historical time, the review goes on to assess its significance to the wider field, examining its connection with some of the core impulses of criminology at large...
This article makes the case for greater use of systematic archival research as a methodological tool...
The steady growth of historical criminology as a field of research in the past decade is a promising...
A central question surrounding the historical study of crime today concerns whether studying crime h...
To what extent can the past ‘explain’ the present? This deceptively simple question lies at the hear...
The relationship between history and social science generally, as well as history and criminology sp...
In the almost twenty years since Peter Becker and I convened a conference on the history of criminol...
This article makes the case for greater use of systematic archival research as a methodological tool...
It is widely claimed that criminologists should exercise a ‘criminological imagination’ by connectin...
This article makes the case for greater use of systematic archival research as a methodological tool...
Unlike many others in this collection, the present essay is not concerned with a clearly-defined bod...
This article considers why, despite an apparent congruence of subject matter and methodologies, the ...
This article makes the case for greater use of systematic archival research as a methodological tool...
This article makes the case for greater use of systematic archival research as a methodological tool...
This article makes the case for greater use of systematic archival research as a methodological tool...
This article makes the case for greater use of systematic archival research as a methodological tool...
This article makes the case for greater use of systematic archival research as a methodological tool...
The steady growth of historical criminology as a field of research in the past decade is a promising...
A central question surrounding the historical study of crime today concerns whether studying crime h...
To what extent can the past ‘explain’ the present? This deceptively simple question lies at the hear...
The relationship between history and social science generally, as well as history and criminology sp...
In the almost twenty years since Peter Becker and I convened a conference on the history of criminol...
This article makes the case for greater use of systematic archival research as a methodological tool...
It is widely claimed that criminologists should exercise a ‘criminological imagination’ by connectin...
This article makes the case for greater use of systematic archival research as a methodological tool...
Unlike many others in this collection, the present essay is not concerned with a clearly-defined bod...
This article considers why, despite an apparent congruence of subject matter and methodologies, the ...
This article makes the case for greater use of systematic archival research as a methodological tool...
This article makes the case for greater use of systematic archival research as a methodological tool...
This article makes the case for greater use of systematic archival research as a methodological tool...
This article makes the case for greater use of systematic archival research as a methodological tool...
This article makes the case for greater use of systematic archival research as a methodological tool...
The steady growth of historical criminology as a field of research in the past decade is a promising...
A central question surrounding the historical study of crime today concerns whether studying crime h...