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• W265648045 abstract "This essay comments on the reviews of my book, Toward Unified Criminology: Integrating Assumptions about Crime, People, and Society (2011, New York University Press). These reviews were published in the last issue of the Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Criminology (July, 2012, Volume 4, #2). I also provided synopsis of the book in that issue, and as did the review by James Unnever. I want to begin by thanking the four reviewers, Stuart Henry, Matthew Robinson, James D. Unnever, and Avi Brisman, for their thoughtful comments. I also thank the editor of the journal, David Polizzi, for organizing the review symposium.The reviewers all recommend the book and point to certain of its strengths, such as the fact that it draws on range of disciplines when evaluating and integrating the underlying assumptions of crime theories and perspectives. But the reviewers also point to certain important issues and sources that I overlook, as noted below. And they criticize certain of the arguments I make. I respond to their criticisms below, arguing that many are based on misreading of the book. I begin with the major problem that the book addresses, then discuss the goals of the book, followed by the particular chapters in the book - each of which examines major underlying assumption.The Problem: A Divided Criminology. I open the book by arguing that divided discipline, with the most prominent division between mainstream and critical criminologists. But I also contend that there are major divisions within mainstream and critical as well. Criminologists representing different perspectives and theories often focus on different types of crime, employ different explanations, test their explanations using different methods, and make different recommendations for controlling crime. For example, mainstream criminologists assume that crime involves acts in violation of the criminal law, while critical criminologists employ much broader definition of crime, focusing on many harmful acts not in violation of the law - including acts committed by corporations and states. To give another example, many control theorists assume that there little variation in the motivation for crime, and they explain crime in terms of differences in the controls or restraints against crime. Strain theorists, by contrast, assume there much variation in the motivation to crime, and they explain crime in terms of the stressors or strains that pressure individuals into crime.I then state that my book is motivated by the belief that this division has hurt the field and the larger society. This division undermines attempts to construct comprehensive theory that can better explain broad range of crimes. And it prevents criminologists from agreeing on recommendations for reducing crime. My book designed to lay the foundation for an integrated or unified that will overcome these problems. Avi Brisman, however, states that he not sure that divided discipline, or at least any more divided than other disciplines, and he wonders whether criminology risk[s] reversing course and losing some of its interdisciplinary vitality by working toward unity and integration. At the same time, he acknowledges that a little more open-mindedness towards differing underlying assumptions would well serve criminologists.I stand by my assertion that divided discipline, as briefly described above and more fully discussed in the book, although I am not in good position to judge whether it more or less divided than other disciplines. But whatever the case, I also stand by my assertion that the division in dysfunctional. As argued in the book, many scholars in the discipline work in their own taken-for-granted worlds, focusing on particular types of crimes but ignoring others, considering certain causes but unduly dismissing others, and advocating crime reduction strategies that flow only from the crimes and causes they consider. …" @default.
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• W265648045 title "Integrating Assumptions about Crime, People, and Society: Response to the Reviews of toward a Unified Criminology" @default.
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