Chronocentrism and British criminology.
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.
Rock
Paul
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Sociology, London School of Econonomics and Political Science. p.rock@lse.ac.uk
D003418:Criminology / Q000266:history*; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D012922:Social Change / Q000266:history; D006113:United Kingdom