CRIMINOLOGY AND ITS DISCONTENTS: THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CRIMINOLOGY 2007 SUTHERLAND ADDRESS

Expanding Criminology’s Domain: the American Society of Criminology 2006 Presidential Address*

Democracy is directly linked to the two main components of criminology: crime and justice. Moreover, the scientific study of crime and justice has been limited in large part to researchers working in democratic regimes. In this article, I address the question of how criminologists through research and education can better nurture democratic, nonauthoritarian societies. I argue that our field wo...

The 2016 Sutherland Address Towardan Analytical Criminology: the Micro–macro Problem, Causal Mechanisms, and Public Policy∗

In this address, I revisit the micro–macro problem in criminology, arguing for an “analytical criminology” that takes an integrated approach to the micro– macro problem. I begin by contrasting an integrated methodological-individualist approach with traditional holist and individualist approaches. An integrated approach considers the concept of emergence and tackles the difficult problem of spe...

Is Criminology Moving Toward a Paradigm Shift?: Evidence from a Survey of the American Society of Criminology

Psychiatry and Criminology

Computational Criminology

In this report, we present our work done in spring 2011 on the UK crimes dataset. This dataset was first released in December 2010, and contains reports of crimes committed in England and Wales, with their type and location. We first perform some exploratory analysis on this data, by looking at the correlation of crime rates with some independent variables, such as the population density or the...