Future of Criminology

The Future of Criminology takes stock of the major advances and developments that have taken place in the past several decades and asks where the field of criminology is headed. In thirty-three brief essays, the field's leading scholars provide their views into the future of what needs to be done in research, policy, and practice in the discipline.

List of contents

• Contents


• Foreword: Looking Back and Forward


• David P. Farrington


• A Future of Criminology and a Criminologist for the Ages


• Rolf Loeber and Brandon C. Welsh


• Contributors


• I. DEVELOPMENT AND CAUSATION


• 1. Some Future Trajectories for Life Course Criminology


• D. Wayne Osgood


• 2. Does the Study of the Age-Crime Curve have a Future?


• Rolf Loeber


• 3. Developmental Origins of Aggression: From Social Learning to Epigenetics


• Richard E. Tremblay


• 4. Biology of Crime: Past, Present, and Future Perspectives


• Adrian Raine and Jill Portnoy


• 5. Self-Control, Then and Now


• Terrie E. Moffitt


• 6. Criminological Theory: Past Achievements and Future Challenges


• Terence P. Thornberry


• 7. Individuals' Situational Criminal Actions: Current Knowledge and Tomorrow's Prospects


• Per-Olof H. Wikström


• 8. Lack of Empathy and Offending: Implications for Tomorrow's Research and Practice


• Darrick Jolliffe and Joseph Murray


• 9. Person-in-Context: Insights and Issues in Research on Neighborhoods and Crime


• Gregory M. Zimmerman and Steven F. Messner


• 10. Risk and Protective Factors in the Assessment of School Bullies and Victims


• Maria M. Ttofi and Peter K. Smith


• 11. Adult Onset Offending: Perspectives for Future Research


• Georgia Zara


• 12. The Next Generation of Longitudinal Studies


• Magda Stouthamer-Loeber


• II. CRIMINAL CAREERS AND JUSTICE


• 13. Research on Criminal Careers: Part 1: Contributions, Opportunities, and Needs


• Alfred Blumstein


• 14. Research on Criminal Careers: Part 2: Looking Back to Predict Ahead


• Alex R. Piquero


• 15. The Harvesting of Administrative Records: New Problems, Great Potential


• Howard N. Snyder


• 16. Twenty-Five Years of Developmental Criminology: What We Know, What We Need to Know


• Marc Le Blanc


• 17. Pushing Back the Frontiers of Knowledge on Desistance from Crime


• Lila Kazemian


• 18. Does Psychopathology Appear Fully Only in Adulthood?


• Raymond R. Corrado


• III. PREVENTION


• 19. Preventing Delinquency by Putting Families First


• Brandon C. Welsh


• 20. The Future of Preventive Public Health: Implications of Brain Violence Research


• Frederick P. Rivara


• 21. "Own the Place, Own the Crime " Prevention: How Evidence about Place-Based Crime Shifts the Burden of Prevention


• John E. Eck and Rob T. Guerette


• 22. Community Approaches to Preventing Crime and Violence: The Challenge of Building Prevention Capacity


• Ross Homel and Tara Renae McGee


• 23. Taking Effective Crime Prevention to Scale: From School-Based Programs to Community-Wide Prevention Systems


• J. David Hawkins, Richard F. Catalano, Karl G. Hill, and Rick Kosterman


• IV. INTERVENTION AND TREATMENT


• 24. The Human Experiment in Treatment: A Means to the End of Offender Recidivism


• Doris Layton MacKenzie and Gaylene Styve Armstrong


• 25. Towards a Third Phase of 'What Works' in Offender Rehabilitation


• Friedrich Lösel


• 26. Raising the Bar: Transforming Knowledge to Practice for Children in Conflict with the Law


• Leena K. Augimeri and Christopher J. Koegl


• 27. Intervening with Violence: Priorities for Reform from a Public Health Perspective


• Jonathan P. Shepherd


• 28. How to Reduce the Global Homicide Rate to 2 per 100,000 by 2060


• Manuel Eisner and Amy Nivette


• V. PUBLIC POLICY STRATEGIES


• 29. The Problem with Macro-Criminology


• James Q. Wilson


• 30. Staking Out the Next Generation of Studies of the Criminology of Place: Collecting Prospective Longitudinal Data at Crime Hot Spots


• David Weisburd, Brian Lawton, and Justin Ready


• 31. The Futures of Experimental Criminology


• Lawrence W. Sherman


• 32. Stopping Crime Requires Successful Implementation of What Works


• Irvin Waller


• 33. The Future of Sentencing and Its Control


• Michael Tonry

About the author

Rolf Loeber is Distinguished University Professor of Psychiatry and Professor of Psychology and Epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., and Professor of Juvenile Delinquency and Social Development, Free University, Amsterdam, Netherlands. He is Co-director of the Life History Program.

Brandon C. Welsh is an Associate Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northeastern University and a Senior Research Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement. He has written nine books, including The Oxford Handbook of Crime Prevention (Oxford University Press, in press).

Summary

The Future of Criminology takes stock of the major advances and developments that have taken place in the past several decades and asks where the field of criminology is headed. In thirty-three brief essays, the field's leading scholars provide their views into the future of what needs to be done in research, policy, and practice in the discipline.

Product details

• Authors: Rolf Loeber, Rolf (Professor Loeber, Rolf Welsh Loeber
• Assisted by: Rolf Loeber (Editor), Rolf (Professor Loeber (Editor), Brandon C Welsh (Editor), Brandon C. Welsh (Editor), Brandon C. (Professor of Criminal Justice Welsh (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.06.2012
• EAN: 9780199917952
• ISBN: 978-0-19-991795-2
• No. of pages: 336
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology