Green Criminology: Its Foundation in Critical Criminology and the Way Forward

Psychiatry and Criminology

Computational Criminology

In this report, we present our work done in spring 2011 on the UK crimes dataset. This dataset was first released in December 2010, and contains reports of crimes committed in England and Wales, with their type and location. We first perform some exploratory analysis on this data, by looking at the correlation of crime rates with some independent variables, such as the population density or the...

Biological Perspectives in Criminology

For several decades, mainstream criminology has been dominated by sociological and political perspectives. Although findings from these fields must not be discarded or underplayed, considered alone, they do not offer a complete assessment of the contributions to criminal behavior. Data currently being generated from numerous behavioral sciences, such as behavioral genetics, physiological psycho...

The Role of Evolutionary Explanations in Criminology

Criminology is widely accepted to be an interdisciplinary subject. However, evolutionary approaches are conspicuous by their absence in mainstream criminological contexts. Although the reasons for this theoretical lacuna are no doubt varied, we argue that the time is apposite for a measured consideration of the role of evolutionary explanations in criminology. By drawing on the idea of vertical...

MSc in CRIMINOLOGY and CRIMINAL JUSTICE

• Option Essays In each of Michaelmas and Hilary Terms, students were required to take two optional seminar courses (out of a choice of three in Michaelmas and four in Hilary). These were examined by essays, the titles of which were posted on Friday of 6 week, to be submitted by noon on Friday of ninth week. Each essay was to be no less than 3,500 and no more than 5,000 words, including footnot...