RT Article
T1 Context and Linkage. Reflections on Comparative Research and 'Internationalism' in Criminology
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 33
IS 4
SP 541
OP 554
A1 Vagg, Jon
LA English
YR 1993
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1640348948
AB Comparative criminology has recently become a growth area, with the publication of several major books.1 With this in mind, I would like to present an argument about the current concerns and possible future directions of comparative criminological research. The argument begins with a consideration of how far we can detach crime and criminal justice data from their social, political, and economic contexts. This is treated as a matter of whether bodies of prima facie comparable data can be seen as addressing similar issues, given the context from which they come. My thesis is that both in terms of the crimes we seek to understand, and the theories we use to address them, we need to think much more carefully about the kinds of linkages that can be made between various aspects of criminal activity in different societies, about the relevances we are prepared to entertain, and what they are likely to mean in the context of any individual society. When we consider comparative data in this light, the nature of the crime and criminal justice problems under investigation may change in rather important ways. Reflection on those changes might offer some new directions for what I have termed a more internationalist' criminology. The kinds of directions that might flow from such a re-orientation are illustrated towards the end of this paper, with an admittedly eclectic set of examples
K1 Organisierte Kriminalität
K1 Internationale Kriminalstatistiken
K1 Polizei
K1 Vergleichende Kriminologie
K1 Internationaler Vergleich
K1 Internationaler Drogenhandel
K1 Hongkong
K1 International
K1 Bevölkerung
K1 Kriminalitätsvergleich
K1 Japan
K1 Jugendkriminalität