The Future of Criminology

by Loeber, Rolf; Welsh, Brandon C.

• ISBN13: 9780199917952
• ISBN10: 0199917957
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-05-29
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Criminology is a dynamic and evolving field of study. In the recent decades, the study of the causes, development, prevention, and treatment of juvenile delinquency and adult crime has produced many important discoveries. This volume address two questions about crucial topics facing criminology - from causation to prevention to public policy: Where are we now? What does the future hold? Rolf Loeber and Brandon C. Welsh lead a team of more than forty top scholars from across the world to present the future of research, policy, and practice in the discipline. "Criminology has entered into a new era in which standard ideas are being revised or replaced by fresh theoretical and empirical investigations. InThe Future of Criminology, Rolf Loeber and Brandon Welsh capture the field's dynamic nature by pulling together, under one cover, diverse ideas of where criminology should head. Written by leading scholars, the volume's contributions provide lucid and compelling assessments of how best to think about crime and its control. Every scholar should keep this book close at hand and consult it regularly."--Francis T. Cullen, Distinguished Research Professor, University of Cincinnati "Inspired by David Farrington, one of the world's foremost scholars of criminology, The Future of Criminology is designed to be a 'state of the art' collection of essays delineating criminology's contribution to our understanding of crime prevention and its control. It succeeds admirably as a diverse group of leading scholars summarize, integrate, and extend previous work on child delinquency, criminal careers, psychopathology, high-risk families and communities, and experimental criminology. Researchers, policymakers, and students will benefit greatly from a close study of its chapters." -- Joan Petersilia, Adelbert H. Sweet Professor of Law, Stanford Law School "This set of contributions, by forty world-renowned criminologists, constitutes a cutting-edge volume for future generations of scholars to take the baton from David Farrington."--Gerben Bruinsma, Director of Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement, Amsterdam

Author Biography

Brandon C. Welsh is a Professor of Criminology at Northeastern University and a Senior Research Fellow at the Netherlands institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement.

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. ix
Foreword: Looking Back and Forward	p. xvii
A Future of Criminology and a Criminologist for the Ages	p. xxv
Development and Causation
Some Future Trajectories for Life Course Criminology	p. 3
Does the Study of the Age-Crime Curve Have a Future?	p. 11
Developmental Origins of Aggression: From Social Learning to Epigenetics	p. 20
Biology of Crime: Past, Present, and Future Perspectives	p. 30
Self-Control, Then and Now	p. 40
Criminological Theory: Past Achievements and Future Challenges	p. 46
Individuals' Situational Criminal Actions: Current Knowledge and Tomorrow's Prospects	p. 55
Lack of Empathy and Offending: Implications for Tomorrow's Research and Practice	p. 62
Person-in-Context: Insights and Issues in Research on Neighborhoods and Crime	p. 70
Risk and Protective Factors in the Assessment of School Bullies and Victims	p. 79
Adult Onset Offending: Perspectives for Future Research	p. 85
The Next Generation of Longitudinal Studies	p. 94
Criminal Careers and Justice
Research on Criminal Careers, Part 1: Contributions, Opportunities, and Needs	p. 103
Research on Criminal Careers, Part 2: Looking Back to Predict Ahead	p. 112
Harvesting of Administrative Records: New Problems, Great Potential	p. 118
Twenty-five Years of Developmental Criminology: What We Know, What We Need to Know	p. 124
Pushing Back the Frontiers of Knowledge on Desistance from Crime	p. 134
Does Psychopathy Appear Fully Only in Adulthood?	p. 141
Prevention
Preventing Delinquency by Putting Families First	p. 153
The Future of Preventive Public Health: Implications of Brain Violence Research	p. 159
"Own the Place, Own the Crime" Prevention: How Evidence about Place-Based Crime Shifts the Burden of Prevention	p. 166
Community Approaches to Preventing Crime and Violence: The Challenge of Building Prevention Capacity	p. 172
Taking Effective Crime Prevention to Scale: From School-Based Programs to Community-Wide Prevention Systems	p. 178
Intervention and Treatment
The Human Experiment in Treatment: A Means to the End of Offender Recidivism	p. 189
Toward a Third Phase of "What Works" in Offender Rehabilitation	p. 196
Raising the Bar: Transforming Knowledge to Practice for Children in Conflict with the Law	p. 204
Intervening with Violence: Priorities for Reform from a Public Health Perspective	p. 211
How to Reduce the Global Homicide Rate to 2 per 100.000 by 2060	p. 219
Public Policy Strategies
The Problem with Macrocriminology	p. 229
Staking out the Next Generation of Studies of the Criminology of Place: Collecting Prospective Longitudinal Data at Crime Hot Spots	p. 236
The Futures of Experimental Criminology	p. 244
Stopping Crime Requires Successful Implementation of What Works	p. 251
The Future of Sentencing and Its Control	p. 259
Index	p. 267
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