What is criminology about? : philosophical reflections /
edited by Don Crewe, Ronnie Lippens.
- 214 pages ; 24 cm
Originally published: 2015.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Since its inception, criminology has had trouble answering the question of what it is about. But although many consider the answer to this question to be self-evident, this book pursues the provocative possibility that criminology does not know what the object of its study is; it merely knows what it is called.