International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice ( IF 1.250 ) Pub Date : 2021-06-03 , DOI: 10.1016/j.ijlcj.2021.100480 Jon Frauley
Comparative criminology has long struggled with the concept and object of culture while advances in culturally oriented criminologies have been ignored. Likewise, culturalists have ignored attempts at comparison for transcending milieu and are mired by theoretical and methodological eclecticism. Comparative criminology will benefit from engaging with conceptualisations of culture found in culturalist works and culturally oriented criminologies will benefit from an expanded focus beyond localised contexts to reveal and grapple with greater varieties of (sub)cultural variation. After bringing a qualified cultural criminology to comparative criminology I draw on the philosophy of science known as perspectival realism to address some epistemological and methodological problems in each camp. I argue an interpretive comparative criminology focused in identifying and generating conceptual variation is better suited to understand and grapple with the political-cultural dramatisations that are indicated by the statistical data of interest to those wedded to the comparative, nomothetic orthodoxy.
中文翻译:
比较正统的贫困:文化犯罪学、透视现实主义和概念变异
比较犯罪学长期以来一直在与文化的概念和对象作斗争,而以文化为导向的犯罪学的进步却被忽视了。同样,文化主义者忽视了超越环境的比较尝试,陷入了理论和方法论折衷主义的泥潭。比较犯罪学将受益于文化主义作品中的文化概念化,而以文化为导向的犯罪学将受益于超越本地化背景的扩大关注,以揭示和应对更多种类的(亚)文化变异。在将合格的文化犯罪学引入比较犯罪学之后,我利用被称为透视现实主义的科学哲学来解决每个阵营中的一些认识论和方法论问题。