Evaluating criminology and criminal justice
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Evaluating criminology and criminal justice
(Contributions in criminology and penology, no. 51)
Greenwood Press, 1998
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Bibliography: p. [125]-135
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
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 Evaluating Criminology, 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.
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 most influential scholars. The continuing controversy over whether the two fields are converging or diverging is the subject of chapter eight, and the work concludes with a prescription for further research.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Marvin E. Wolfgang Preface Citation Analysis in Criminology and Criminal Justice The Most-Cited Scholars and Works in Major American and International Criminology and Criminal Justice Journals, 1986 to 1990 and 1991 to 1995 Topics Covered in Nine Major Criminology and Criminal Justice Journals, 1986 to 1990 and 1991 to 1995 The Most-Cited Scholars and Works in 20 Major Criminology and Criminal Justice Journals The Most-Cited Scholars in Criminology and Criminal Justice Since 1945: A Longitudinal Analysis of Four Data Sets Who Lands the Luminaries? Rating the Prestige of Criminology and Criminal Justice Journals Through an Analysis of Where Scholars Publish A Page-Coverage Analysis of the Most Influential Scholars in Criminology Textbooks Finis for the Convergence Controversy? A Citation Analysis of the Complementarity Between Criminology and Criminal Justice The Way Forward Bibliography Index
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