Criminology professors don't agree on anything except this: There is no such thing as a good criminology textbook. Some texts focus too much on the criminal justice system, others criminal law, and others on crime typology. Criminalists also criticize criminology texts for being too theoretical. (They are also too expensive.)
Perhaps the problem is not the textbooks, but the subject itself. It's possible that criminology is an unnecessary discipline, a redundant mix of criminal law, political science, sociology, and abnormal psychology. Criminology was mostly taught as a sub-topic of sociology until the explosion of criminal justice degree programs in the early 1970s. It's a useless discipline no one pays any attention to. As a college major it's a total waste of tuition money.
Perhaps the problem is not the textbooks, but the subject itself. It's possible that criminology is an unnecessary discipline, a redundant mix of criminal law, political science, sociology, and abnormal psychology. Criminology was mostly taught as a sub-topic of sociology until the explosion of criminal justice degree programs in the early 1970s. It's a useless discipline no one pays any attention to. As a college major it's a total waste of tuition money.
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