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by Ellen G. Cohn (Author), Richard a. Wright (Author), David P. Farrington (Author)
Using citation analysis, this study examines the influence and prestige of scholars, journals, and university departments in the fields of criminology and criminal justice. In the tradition of Marvin E. Wolfgang's Evaluating Criminology, the authors apply this quantitative method to evaluate the impact of individuals and their research efforts on two fields and to identify interconnections among scholars and their publications. This examination of the most-cited scholars, works, and topics in major American and international journals from 1986 to 1990 and from 1991 to 1995 provides valuable and unbiased feedback for researchers and practitioners.
The nine chapters of this book detail a wide range of findings in both criminology and criminal justice. After an introduction to the methodology, chapters two, three, and four divide recent scholarship into two periods, 1986 to 1990 and 1991 to 1995, in order to consider the most-cited scholars, works, and topics. Chapter five provides a longitudinal analysis of scholars in the discipline since 1945. Chapters six and seven provide a system of prestige-ratings for relevant journals as well as page coverage analysis of the most influential scholars. The continuing controversy over whether the two fields are converging or diverging is the subject of chapter eight, and the work concludes with a prescription for further research.Author Biography
ELLEN G. COHN is Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice in the School of Policy and Management, Florida International University. She has published extensively in both criminology and psychology journals in both the United States and the United Kingdom. Her primary research interest involves the examination of the relationships between weather and criminal behavior.
DAVID P. FARRINGTON is Professor of Psychological Criminology at Cambridge University and President-elect of the American society of Criminology. He is the author of numerous articles and books, including the award-winning Understanding and Controlling Crime (1986). RICHARD A. WRIGHT is Assistant Professor, in the Department of Criminology, Sociology, Social Work, and Geography at Arkansas State University. His previous work includes In Defense of Prisons (Greenwood Press, 1994).
