Criminology

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It is enough for current purposes that we are alerted to this issue and that we bear it in mind as we cover some of the terrain that comes under the heading criminology.

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Although it might be tempting to think that the term is straightforward, and indeed that is how a lot of people talk and think, as we will see, there is a range of ways in which crime can be understood. Tim Newburn is Professor of Criminology and Social Policy and Head of the Social Policy Department, London School of Economics. The critique is associated with what we will come to think of as ‘critical criminology’ and can be found in various forms since at least the 1970s ( see also Chapter 13). He is a former President of the British Society of Criminology (2005- 08) and was elected an Academician of the Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences in 2005. This is a question that is deceptively simple in appearance, but really quite tricky to answer with great certainty.Times are changing again, however, and a new strand of technical and highly policy-oriented ‘scientific’ criminology has been emerging more recently.