Criminology and Criminal Justice
Criminology was classically described by Edwin Sutherland, one of its American pioneers, as the study of "the making, the breaking, and the enforcement of criminal laws." More recently, the subject has split into criminology, the study of the causes of crime, and criminal justice, the study of the institutions and processes involved in the enforcement of the criminal law. The scope is interdisciplinary, ranging across the behavioral and social sciences and the humanities from biology and neurology through sociology, psychology, and political science to literature, history, and philosophy. Most criminology and criminal justice departments and schools were established in the 1970s or later, though many hundreds of such departments now exist. Much writing and research go on, however, in other disciplines and departments as well as the more specialized programs. Contemporary scholarship ranges across time from historical studies of crime in the Middle Ages through content and discourse analyses of newspapers, television, film, and fiction, and across subjects from brain-scans to meta-ethics.
Editor in Chief
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Michael Tonry is Professor of Law and Public Policy at the University of Minnesota Law School, and Senior Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement at Free University in Amsterdam. From 1999 to 2004 he was also Professor of Law and Public Policy and director of The Institute of Criminology at Cambridge University. Since 2001, he has been a visiting professor at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. He has also been a senior fellow of The Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement, Leiden, since 2003. He specializes in criminal law and teaches courses in criminal law, jurisprudence, and comparative law. He is the author or editor of many books and articles, most recently Punishing Race: A Continuing American Dilemma (Oxford, 2012).
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Editorial Board
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| Rosemary Gartner University of Toronto Paul Knepper University of Sheffield |
Julian Roberts Oxford University Alex Piquero University of Texas at Dallas |
Sally Simpson University of Maryland |
Volume Editors
| Donna M. Bishop Northeastern University Sandra Bucerius University of Toronto Francis T. Cullen University of Cincinnati David P. Farrington Cambridge University Barry C. Feld University of Minnesota Law School Rosemary Gartner University of Toronto Robert J. Kane University of Texas at Austin |
Bill McCarthy Harvard University Letizia Paoli Leuven Institute of Criminology, KU Leuven Joan Petersilia Stanford Criminal Justice Center (SCJC) Michael D. Reisig Arizona State University Kevin R. Reitz University of Minnesota Law School Neal Shover University of Tennessee |
University of Cincinnati Michael Tonry University of Minnesota Law School Shanna R. Van Slyke Utica College Brandon C. Welsh Northeastern University; Netherlands Institute for the study of Crime and Law Enforcement Pamela Wilcox University of Cincinnati John Wooldredge University of Cincinnati |
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