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Chronocentrism and British criminology*
Author(s) -
Rock Paul
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
the british journal of sociology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.826
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 1468-4446
pISSN - 0007-1315
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-4446.2005.00078.x
Subject(s) - presentation (obstetrics) , citation , criminology , history , sociology , political science , law , medicine , radiology
Criminologists display a largely unexamined propensity to ignore writings that are more than fifteen or so years old, with evident consequences for the public presentation and validation of expert knowledge. A citation study was combined with detailed observations from British criminologists to ascertain quite how that disavowal of the past was accomplished.