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Against marginality

Arguments for a public criminology

Elliott Currie

University of California at Irvine, USA

Despite its accumulated theoretical and empirical heft, the discipline of criminology has had distressingly little impact on the course of public policy toward crime and criminal justice. This article addresses the sources of that troubling marginality, with special emphasis on the powerful disincentives to greater public impact that operate within the discipline itself and the research universities that mainly house it—including the pressure to publish ever more narrow research in peer-reviewed journals at the expense of efforts at synthesis and dissemination that could serve to educate a broader public. Achieving a greater voice in the world outside the discipline will require a concerted move toward a more explicitly public criminology, and seeing to it that the work of such a criminology is more reliably supported and rewarded within the universities and the profession as a whole.

Key Words: criminology • impact of research • public policy • publication • research universities

Theoretical Criminology, Vol. 11, No. 2, 175-190 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/1362480607075846
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