Starting from the End
A Plea for Focusing on the Consequences of Crime
Published in: European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, v. 23, no. 2, 2015, p. 87–100
Posted on RAND.org on December 29, 2015
Since its institutionalization as an autonomous discipline in the late 19th century, criminology's main project has been identifying the causes of crime.
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