What is European criminology about? Through topic modelling, we investigate the content of 11,724 presentations held at the annual conferences of the European Society of Criminology, the largest and most influential professional association in Europe for those who are actively engaged in research, teaching, and/or practice in criminology, from 2001 to 2019. We extract 50 topics and identify the top contributing institutions and countries based on first author institutional affiliation. In addition, we determine the most and least influential topics in European criminology. We further explore how the prominence of topics has evolved over time and identify five topics that are increasingly being addressed and three topics that have gradually declined in interest – hot and cold topics, respectively. The results are discussed in light of previous research on European criminology and current debates on its epistemology.

欧洲犯罪学是关于什么的？通过主题建模，我们调查了在欧洲犯罪学协会（欧洲最大，最有影响力的专业协会）的年度会议上举办的11,724篇演讲的内容，这些协会专门从事积极从事犯罪学的研究，教学和/或实践的人员，从2001年到2019年。我们提取50个主题，并根据第一作者的机构隶属关系确定最杰出的机构和国家。此外，我们确定了欧洲犯罪学中最具影响力的主题。我们将进一步探讨主题的重要性如何随时间演变，并确定正在逐渐解决的五个主题和对兴趣逐渐下降的三个主题（分别是热门和冷门主题）。