Yeomans, H orcid.org/0000-0001-7095-1141 (2019) Historical context and the criminological imagination: Towards a three-dimensional criminology. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 19 (4). pp. 456-474. ISSN 1748-8958
Abstract
It is widely claimed that criminologists should exercise a ‘criminological imagination’ by connecting individual experiences of crime to social structures and historical context. Despite such claims, criminology is often guilty of a ‘presentism’ that sees the past neglected, ignored or misunderstood. So why and how should criminological research be contextualised historically? This article identifies and examines the functions and forms of historical research within criminology. The article’s significance rests partly in the formulation of an original matrix of forms and functions and its practical utility as a framework for supporting historical contextualization. Additionally, it is ultimately intended that this framework will help construct a more historically-sensitive criminology, as attuned to historical context as it is to individual lives and social structures. The creation of this three-dimensional criminology would entail a fuller realisation of the criminological imagination, thus significantly enhancing the analytical and socially transformative properties of criminological research broadly.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2018. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Criminology and Criminal Justice. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Context, Criminological Imagination, History, Historical Criminology. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Law (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 18 Oct 2018 10:53 |
Last Modified: | 05 May 2021 13:29 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/1748895818812995 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:137251 |