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Contemporary Topics in Criminology book cover

1st Edition

Contemporary Topics in Criminology

Edited By Laura Huey, Lorna Ferguson Copyright 2027
128 Pages
by Routledge

This essential book brings together leading criminology researchers from across the globe to explore the critical role of the ‘evidence base’ in crime and criminal justice. It began with a simple question: if experts were asked to write about the evidence base in their area of expertise, what would they say? Casting the net widely to ensure a diverse range of topics, contributors were given a... Read more

Introduction

Laura Huey

 

1. ‘Speculation was a waste of time: he must wait until there was more evidence’: the importance of an evidence base for criminal justice and criminal justice policy

Alex R. Piquero

 

2. Academic freedom, manufactured evidence, and the integrity of criminal justice policy

Thaddeus L. Johnson and Natasha N. Johnson

 

3. The foundational deficits of correctional rehabilitation

Matthew W. Logan, Joshua S. Long, Brandon C. Dulisse, Ian T. Adams and Mark A. Morgan

 

4. Beyond ‘what works’: why systematisation matters and what more it can do for the criminal justice evidence base

Lisa Tompson

 

5. Beyond data ceilings: rethinking how we understand missing persons

Lorna Ferguson

 

6. Research on public trust and police legitimacy: where next, and why?

Ben Bradford

 

7. A shortage of ‘copaganda fascists’ and the need for more police pracademics

Jerry H. Ratcliffe

 

8. Here Be Dragons: burdens of knowledge and innovation in evidence-based policing

Eric L. Piza

 

9. From rigor to relevance. Building an evidence culture for criminal justice and urban security policies in Southern Europe

Marco Calaresu, Moris Triventi, Mauro Tebaldi and Mirko Nazzari

Biography

Laura Huey is Professor of Sociology at Western University, London, Canada; Editor of Police Practice and Research; a member of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC); and a member of the Canadian Council of Academies’ expert panels on Cybercrime and Policing.

Lorna Ferguson is Assistant Professor at the University of Regina, Canada, and is Founder of the Missing Persons Research Hub. Lorna has a broad interest in policing research, including issues related to search and rescue, incident command, technologies, crime concentration, and cybercrime. Her specialization is police responses to missing persons.

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