Chronocentrism and British criminology
Rock, P.
(2005).
Chronocentrism and British criminology.
British Journal of Sociology,
56(3), 473-791.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-4446.2005.00078.x
(2005).
Chronocentrism and British criminology.
British Journal of Sociology,
56(3), 473-791.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-4446.2005.00078.x
Criminologists display a largely unexamined propensity to ignore writings that are more than fifteen or so years old, with evident consequences for the public presentation and validation of expert knowledge. A citation study was combined with detailed observations from British criminologists to ascertain quite how that disavowal of the past was accomplished.