RT Article
T1 Critiques of Presentism in Criminology: challenges and Paradoxes
JF Law, crime & history
VO 11
IS 1
SP 1
OP 29
A1 Catello, Roberto
LA English
YR 2023
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1860071007
AB This article analyses recent critiques of presentism in criminology. Accusations of presentism in criminology are mainly of two kinds: those critiquing an insufficient interest in the study of criminology’s past and those critiquing an inadequate interest in the historical study of crime-related phenomena. The article identifies four general manifestations of presentism in contemporary criminology: presentism in criminology refers to i) a form of historical short-sightedness and a kind of harmful forgetfulness, ii) a way of burying the past, iii) a mode of being perpetually stuck in an eternal present, and iv) a failure to learn from the past. The article also discusses a variety of technical (i.e., historiographic) manifestations of criminological presentism that reveal some of the challenges and paradoxes inherent in the use of historical research in criminology.
K1 Historical criminology
K1 historical study of crime
K1 Historicism
K1 history of criminology
K1 Presentism