Approaches to criminology.

• Jurisdiction: Australia
• Date: 01 April 2010
• Author: Pickering, Sharon

Agile. For sometime I have considered what may succinctly and (albeit too) generally summarise criminological work emanating from the Antipodes, and specifically that which is published in this journal. Agile it is.

Agility, as Pakes argues in this volume, is required to adapt comparative criminology to conditions of globalisation and developing new conceptual and organisation approaches. The mixture of explanatory and interpretative strategies needed to re-interpret the local in relation to the global, and indeed vice versa, requires lithe intellectual work, moving between the general and the particular in understanding crime and...