Role Of Criminology

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Although divergent in their analysis, approach and recommendations there is an overarching narrative that is shared by some criminological scholars. Put simply, the discipline of criminology broadly, and the work of criminologists, have been unsuccessful in enacting changes to criminal justice policy (Robinson, 2003, 234; Currie, 2007, 175; Mopas & Moore, 2012, 183). When considering the consensus that surrounds the pitfalls of criminology and criminologists, it seems natural to question the usefulness and the legitimacy of turning to this discipline and practice as a means of accomplishing change in criminal justice policy. However, the same scholars that deliver this challenge to criminology do not share in this query. Rather, some researchers …show more content…

The focus of the discipline of criminology should be on improving as an art rather than attempting to be a science. First, it will be useful to discuss the important role that the field of criminology and the work of criminologists can have in shaping and imparting knowledge. That is, knowledge production and teaching the public about the reality of crime should be the primary focus of criminology. Next, the idea that change from within the discipline is possible will be contested in a few ways. Namely, previous attempts at change from within the framework of criminology have been unsuccessful because they end up being absorbed by the system that they sought to change. In turn, these programs end up replicating the dynamics and conditions of the existing system. This point will be examined concerning community intervention and community policing. Similarly, the proposition that public criminology could be the solution to the problems associated with criminology will also be discussed. Furthermore, the usefulness of public criminology will be challenged from the standpoint that criminologists are not equipped with the proper tools for implementation and that public criminology is as susceptible to being absorbed into the existing framework as other previous attempts at

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