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Contents 1 Proposal for WikiProject Crime 2 Schools 3 Cleanup links 4 Rehabilitation 5 Introduction 6 Get Money?

[edit] Proposal for WikiProject Crime

A proposal for WikiProject Crime has been made at the WikiProject Council. MadMax 22:40, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Schools

Give briefly the ideas of the schools? --—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.60.180.59 (talk • contribs) .

To encapsulate all the schools would take too long and duplicate the material on their ownpages. Simply contrasting Classical and Positivist is probably enough. David91 09:59, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

[the following edit is not from David91!]:
I am a law graduate from germany. Mentioning the chicago school in the context of classical (aka italian school) and positivist school is simply wrong. The chicago school should rather be mentioned as a basis for certain crime theories. There is also no mentioning of people like Lacassagne, Tarde and Franz. v. Liszt.
Furthermore i think it's wrong to put the main focus in this article on british and american researchers. While it's true that many theories of crime have been developed by american researchers in the 20th century, the roots of criminology as a scientific field are more "european based".

I think there may be an arguement for a sociological school of criminology, as the chicage school did inspire many radical criminologists in the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s, which have been somewhat influential. Votemoose 12:39, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup links

While I have broader intentions of cleaning and expanding the criminology article, I'd like to start with the external links. I added a couple reputable links (American Society of Criminology, and National Criminal Justice Reference Service). However, there are two that I don't think need to be there:

• Criminology site with a UK focus and many useful links - This site doesn't seem that useful or informative to me. It's also poorly designed and difficult to read (and look at), given the colors used. I don't think the information adds much value either, beyond what Wikipedia can do. If some of those links listed on that site are truly useful, we can link to them directly in the appropriate article.

• The New Criminologist - This is a link to a "criminology" — true crime — publication, which requires payment to view the articles. I also don't think it's content is so great and is not scholarly; the University of Toronto — a top criminology school — does not subscribe to it [1], as is also the case for the University of Maryland and other universities.

Please discuss here if you disagree about removing these links. Otherwise, these will be removed in a couple days. --Aude 21:32, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

I removed the external link The New Criminologist. This is not a "scholarly" publication, as a user above put it. I can elaborate if anyone wishes. Panastasia 16:28, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Seconded (thirded?). The link can stay above if anyone's really interested. zzuuzz ^(talk) 16:40, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Rehabilitation

Can someone with an interest or expertise in penology have a look at Rehabilitation (penology)? It's in dire need of serious attention. I've placed cats and the template, but am really not qualified to write very much on the subject. Regards —Encephalon 10:25, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Introduction

"Criminology is an interdisciplinary field in the behavioural sciences, drawing especially on the research of sociologists and psychologists, as well as on writings in law." Please note that this is only one of the different visions. Others think that criminology is a proper science on its own and even others do think that it is only a subscience in the sociology. Could this be stated as well? 81.82.202.139 14:29, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Get Money?

Can someone tell me why it says "Get Money" before criminology? I can't seem to delete it, I assume someone else here will be able to. Ronius 22:24, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Someone vandalized the template. Vandalism has been removed and the template is semi-protected, to help prevent it in the future. --Aude (talk) 22:29, 7 March 2007 (UTC)