This article argues for the importance of (homo)sexuality to the criminological enterprise. It traces a course of criminological engagement with homosexuality from the works of Lombroso and the early sexologists, through the 'nuts, sluts and perverts' period of interactionism to gay activism and polemic against homophobic violence and discrimination. Criminology is seen to have lumped both the 'criminal' and the 'homosexual' together in its early manifestation before ceding its interest to medicine and the law. In criminology's mid-period, homosexuality is taken up again as part of the interactionist 'sociology of deviance' project before it is dropped again by radicals more interested in the politics of class and race. Currently in criminology sexuality is slowly being granted to women (the young and black were - sometimes jealously? - assumed to have it already) and homosexuality is increasingly admitted to the list of victims of crime. What might be the scope within criminology for gay empiricism, standpointism or 'queer theory'? Moreover, what might this mean for the 'masculinity' turn in some recent criminology?
This article examines UK national press coverage of criminology and criminologists for the twelve months up to April 2005. In part it replicates work done on sociology and sociologists in the previous year by Gaber (2005). Both serious and by the bye contributions by criminologists and mentions of criminology -favourable and unfavourable -are analysed, to provoke discussion within criminology and criminal justice studies about how the discipline is viewed by the print media. The discussion draws on developments in sociology around 'public sociology' and suggests the necessity of, and ways forward for, 'public criminology'.
This paper looks back on earlier pieces on CCTV in Britain by Groombridge and Murji and argues that the identified failures of CCTV, in terms of effectiveness and value-for money, have been consistently ignored both at the time and in more recent government evaluations. * A much shorter version of this piece was published as: Groombridge, N. (2007) 'Taken in by Technology', Criminal Justice Matters 69.
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