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1. A Brief Sketch of Crime Science and Its Limits

  • James C. Oleson and Ronald Kramer
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Contesting Crime Science
This chapter is in the book Contesting Crime Science
© 2022 University of California Press, Berkeley

© 2022 University of California Press, Berkeley

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Illustrations vii
  4. Acknowledgments ix
  5. Introduction 1
  6. 1. A Brief Sketch of Crime Science and Its Limits 17
  7. 2. Biological Crime Science. Identification and Biosocial Criminology 49
  8. 3. Actuarial Science. Crime Control as a Risky Business 87
  9. 4. Security Science. Cartographies of Crime, States of Exception, and the Twilight of Liberty 123
  10. 5. Environmental Crime Science. Missing the Forest for the Acronyms 150
  11. Conclusion 190
  12. Notes 203
  13. Bibliography 227
  14. Index 253
https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520971264-004

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Illustrations vii
  4. Acknowledgments ix
  5. Introduction 1
  6. 1. A Brief Sketch of Crime Science and Its Limits 17
  7. 2. Biological Crime Science. Identification and Biosocial Criminology 49
  8. 3. Actuarial Science. Crime Control as a Risky Business 87
  9. 4. Security Science. Cartographies of Crime, States of Exception, and the Twilight of Liberty 123
  10. 5. Environmental Crime Science. Missing the Forest for the Acronyms 150
  11. Conclusion 190
  12. Notes 203
  13. Bibliography 227
  14. Index 253
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