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Policing Advance Access originally published online on June 20, 2008
Policing 2008 2(2):154-159; doi:10.1093/police/pan019
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How to Behave Like a Scientist?

Ken Pease*

* Professor Ken Pease, Midlands Centre for Criminology & Justice, Loughborough University, UK. E-mail: K.Pease{at}lboro.ac.uk

The wish to re-orient the study of crime from conventional criminology smacks of arrogance and must be justified by reference to advantages that might be gained from such a re-orientation. It is contended that an eclectic approach seeking contributions across science disciplines would stimulate cross-discipline research; undermine the separation of natural and social science reflected in the structure of both Home Office and Research Councils and the content of university courses on crime; and remove obstacles to topic-led developments and the emergence of hybrid journals (which are characteristic of faster-advancing areas of scholarship). Examples of actual and potential cross-discipline work are provided and the mushroom growth of criminology as a discipline in tertiary education is argued to be inimical to the re-orientation advocated in this article.


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