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<p>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 <i>Evaluating Criminology</i>, 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.</p> <p>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

Who reads Evaluating Criminology and Criminal Justice (Contributions in Criminology and Penology)?

Author

Ellen G. Cohn, David P. Farrington, and Richard A. Wright

Publisher

Greenwood Press [Imprint]Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9780313301537

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Social Science, Social_sciences