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    Crime, policing and compliance with the law

    Hough, Mike (2015) Crime, policing and compliance with the law. In: Michie, J. and Cooper, C. (eds.) Why the Social Sciences Matter. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 143-160. ISBN 9781137269904.

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    Abstract

    Social scientific research has made a very substantial contribution to specialist academic understanding of crime and its control. This chapter sketches out that contribution that has been made in three areas: our understanding of crime trends; our knowledge of policing and its effects of crime; and the factors that encourage people to comply with the law. The ways in which practitioners and academics think about these issues has been transformed over the last half-century, and social scientific research is a significant factor in achieving this transformation. However, the same research has achieved a much more tenuous hold on political and public discourse about crime, and the chapter concludes with a discussion of the reasons for this, and offers some thoughts on how social science should aim to extend its reach into highly politicised issues such as “law and order”.

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    Item Type: Book Section
    Additional Information: This extract is taken from the author's original manuscript and has not been edited. The definitive, published, version of record is available here: http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/why-the-social-sciences-matter-jonathan-michie/?K=9781137269904
    Keyword(s) / Subject(s): Crime trends, victim surveys, police effectiveness, procedural justice, penal populism
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences
    Research Centres and Institutes: Crime & Justice Policy Research, Institute for
    Depositing User: Mike Hough
    Date Deposited: 11 Dec 2014 14:04
    Last Modified: 02 Aug 2023 17:14
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/11279

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