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 criminology entails, how it is best pursued, its future might hold. This article explores the several conceptions of found in literature, which associate variously with archival research, practical inquiry, a concern temporality, cert...

This report looks at the magnitude of crime perpetrated by the most active offenders in a particular police area and places it in the context of a research programme which seeks to integrate and render locally useful the major findings of applied criminology. The results are contrasting. In terms of all crime, the group of offenders nominated did not appear to contribute substantially to levels...

One of the most basic questions in criminology is how to measure the key outcome variable of offending. The two most common measurement methods are to use official records of arrests/convictions or self-reports of offending. These two methods have different advantages and problems. For example, official records include only the ‘tip of the iceberg’ of offending, but the offences are recorded qu...

The study of offender trajectories has been a prolific area of criminological research. However, few studies have incorporated the influence of emerging adulthood, a recently identified stage of the life course, on offending trajectories. The present study addressed this shortcoming by introducing the "prolonged adolescent" offender, a low-level offender between the ages of 18 and 25 that has f...

Modelling criminal trial verdict outcomes using social network measures is an emerging research area in quantitative criminology. Few studies have yet analyzed which of these measures are the most important for verdict modelling or which data classification techniques perform best for this application. To compare the performance of different techniques in classifying members of a criminal netwo...

English Abstract In the article, my experience dealing with online courses on criminological topics carried out in the undergraduate course for "Security and Social control Operators" (University of Bologna, Italy) is illustrated. Through the distribution of an evaluation questionnaire to the participants of the course, I have had the possibility of pointing out the positive and negative aspect...