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 |
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| 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: | 16 Apr 2025 03:27 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/11279 |
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