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European Society of Criminology Conference: Presidential Addresses

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What is European criminology actually about? Evolution from 2021 to 2023

  • Josep Maria Tamarit
  • Núria Franco Guillen
  • Alba Marsol Gutiérrez

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This study examines the evolution of European criminology from 2021 to 2023. It aimed to determine if there have been any changes in the topics that researchers are interested in and how these topics have evolved. These interests might be affected by ...
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European Criminology needs European Data: The case for a pan-European crime and victimization survey

  • Catrien Bijleveld

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While European criminology is flourishing, we are faced with insufficient pan-European data. The European Sourcebook provides regular synchronized criminal justice system statistics, but data on crime incidence are patchy at best. Ever fewer countries ...
Restricted accessResearch articleFirst published May 22, 2023
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Two decades of European criminology: Exploring the conferences of the European Society of Criminology through topic modelling

  • Tom Vander Beken
  • Christophe Vandeviver
  • Stijn Daenekindt

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What is European criminology about? Through topic modelling, we investigate the content of 11,724 presentations held at the annual conferences of the European Society of Criminology, the largest and most influential professional association in Europe for ...
Open AccessResearch articleFirst published Apr 22, 2021
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Exploring cultural criminology: The police world in fiction

  • Rossella Selmini

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In my 2017 presidential address to the European Society of Criminology (ESC) in Cardiff, I explored the representation of the police and police work in contemporary European novels, and compared and contrasted how the police and policing are dealt with in ...
Restricted accessResearch articleFirst published Jul 6, 2020
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European penology: The rise and fall of prison population rates in Europe in times of migrant crises and terrorism

  • Frieder Dünkel

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Prison population rates in many European countries have increased until the beginning of the 21st century. Prison overcrowding and questions around the ‘New Punitiveness’ have dominated the discourse. Recently a remarkable drop in prison population rates ...
Restricted accessResearch articleFirst published Nov 17, 2017
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Proliferation of crime causation theories in an era of fragmentation: Reflections on the current state of criminological theory

  • Gerben Bruinsma

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In this presidential address I reflect on the theme of the 2015 annual European Society of Criminology meeting by addressing and discussing the issue of the overwhelming number of crime causation theories in criminology, as well as providing a brief ...
Restricted accessResearch articleFirst published Oct 2, 2016
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Is cross-national and comparative research on the criminal justice system useful?

  • Michael Tonry

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Comparative and cross-national research on the criminal justice system is burgeoning. Case studies of institutions and systems in individual countries are proliferating, as are theoretical and quantitative cross-national analyses of the predictors of ...
Restricted accessResearch articleFirst published Jul 9, 2015
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Making people happy is the best crime prevention: Towards happy-making criminology

  • Vesna Nikolic-Ristanovic
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Law and order from below or from above? The challenge for criminologists

  • Henrik Tham
Restricted accessResearch articleFirst published Jun 28, 2013
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