RT Article
T1 Making a Difference in Criminology: Past, Present, and Future
JF American journal of criminal justice
VO 44
IS 4
SP 670
OP 688
A1 Blomberg, Thomas G.
LA English
YR 2019
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1764208455
AB Over the past century, criminology has evolved as both an applied and increasingly recognized scientific discipline. Although criminology has experienced a number of ideological shifts in focus, the discipline is now poised to effectively combine both of its purposes, namely the ongoing search for the causes of crime and advancing the use of empirical research in policy and practice decisions. One of the most promising best practices in this simultaneous pursuit is researcher and policymaker/practitioner partnerships. This paper traces the “making a difference” movement in criminology since 2000. It begins with an assessment of the rise of and resistance to the making a difference movement, followed by a discussion of some of the challenges and prospects for criminologists in their efforts to apply research to policy and practice through researcher and policymaker/practitioner partnerships. The paper concludes with discussion of the future potential of researcher and policymaker/practitioner partnerships in successfully confronting our major crime and criminal justice system challenges.
K1 Researcher policymaker/practitioner partnerships
K1 Public Policy
K1 Criminology
DO 10.1007/s12103-019-09484-6