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On the Origins of Criminology: A Research Note

On the Origins of Criminology: A Research Note European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, Vol. 14/1, 115–125, 2006 © Koninklijke Brill NV. Printed in the Netherlands. Tom Daems* On the Origins of Criminology A Research Note 1. INTRODUCTION Talking about crime and punishment has a timeless and universal quality: history presents itself as a vast collection of images of crime, narratives of its causes and methods for its control and punishment. Different voices and arguments pervade the debate and everybody seems to be an expert as the late Norval Morris expressed it nicely: “people are born experts on the causes and control of crime; they sense the solutions in their bones. The solutions differ dramatically from person to person, but each one knows, and knows deeply and emotionally, that his perspective is the way of truth.” 1 So what sets the voice of the criminologist apart from all these other voices on the subject? And why, at a certain point in time, did it become possible and desirable to have a science of crime and its control? Reading books on the history of criminology is thought-provoking because it invites FULPLQRORJLVWV WR UHÁHFW XSRQ WKHLU RZQ VXEMHFW PDWWHU LQ WKH PRVW IXQGDPHQWDO ZD\ one http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Brill

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© 2006 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0928-9569
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European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, Vol. 14/1, 115–125, 2006 © Koninklijke Brill NV. Printed in the Netherlands. Tom Daems* On the Origins of Criminology A Research Note 1. INTRODUCTION Talking about crime and punishment has a timeless and universal quality: history presents itself as a vast collection of images of crime, narratives of its causes and methods for its control and punishment. Different voices and arguments pervade the debate and everybody seems to be an expert as the late Norval Morris expressed it nicely: “people are born experts on the causes and control of crime; they sense the solutions in their bones. The solutions differ dramatically from person to person, but each one knows, and knows deeply and emotionally, that his perspective is the way of truth.” 1 So what sets the voice of the criminologist apart from all these other voices on the subject? And why, at a certain point in time, did it become possible and desirable to have a science of crime and its control? Reading books on the history of criminology is thought-provoking because it invites FULPLQRORJLVWV WR UHÁHFW XSRQ WKHLU RZQ VXEMHFW PDWWHU LQ WKH PRVW IXQGDPHQWDO ZD\ one

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