NCJ Number
131441
Date Published
1990
Length
13 pages
Annotation
This analysis of developments in applied criminology notes that significant changes have occurred in national, but not in international, criminal justice research approaches and that the international criminal justice research community should reevaluate its research priorities and feasibilities in accordance with these emerging national trends.
Abstract
Criminology at the national level shows a strong skepticism towards a global theory of crime and social change and toward macroscopic quantitative research, but international research appears to be going in the opposite direction. Thus, criminologists at the national level increasingly believe that the goals of social development should be pursued for their own sake as a matter of priority and that any resulting reductions in crime would be a bonus. Similarly, they believe that the focus should be on what is feasible rather than what is desirable. Such an approach in international research would reflect the dominant trend in national research. Notes