Explaining police-recorded crime trends in Sheffield

Pepinsky, Harold E.

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“…You can find a chronicle of my struggle with criminology's standard dependent variables--crime and criminality--in Pepinsky (1991) and more recently in Pepinsky (2000b). From my dissertation explaining how police patrol officers decided whether to report offenses (as implicitly instructed by police dispatchers) through studies of crime reporting in Indianapolis and in Sheffield, England, my conviction only strengthened (Pepinsky 1987).…”

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“…Different forces sent them up from those that sent them down. And yet, I had to go through several journals before I found one that would not reject my work for not being sufficiently quantitative (Pepinsky 1987).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…From my dissertation explaining how police patrol officers decided whether to report offenses (as implicitly instructed by police dispatchers) through studies of crime reporting in Indianapolis and in Sheffield, England, my conviction only strengthened (Pepinsky 1987). As I went to Norway to study "peaceful societies," I had given up studying crime and criminality counting, and was looking for a new dependent variable for my own inquiry.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Can a humanist criminologist be a sociologist?

Pepinsky

2002

Am Soc

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Here I reflect on my career as a criminologist, focusing on a failed attempt to become recognized as a legitimate sociologist, and on how 1 have found community in the company of members of the Association for Humanist Sociology.Dear TAS readers, I have reflected long and hard about how to use this opportunity to write to those I suppose I might stereotype as mainstream U.S. sociologists. As guest editor of this issue on humanist sociology, Bill Du Bois did me the honor of asking me to write as a criminologist, which I am.I dropped my ASA membership late in the 'seventies, just a few years after receiving my sociology doctorate. By then I already had felt numerous professional rejections by those identified as "sociologists." From losing my first job in a sociology department on the grounds that I was a "philosopher" rather than a "scientist," to scathing journal rejections, to rejection of even a courtesy by my two post-graduate disciplines--law and sociology--I got the message that although I had a good job and opportunity to study crime, I was not really a sociologist. (I am in an interdisciplinary arts and sciences social science department in "criminal justice," a congenial academic home.) Twenty years ago, my wife, Jill Bystydzienski, and I attended our first Association for Humanist Sociology (AHS) meeting together. Jill was AHS president from 2000 to 2001. The AHS meeting is our one favorite meeting to attend together each year, in a group calling itself "sociological."When Bill DuBois invited me to contribute an article to this issue, I accepted and sent a fairly formal abstract before I really began to think through what to write. After sending my abstract, I e-mailed Bill a message that on further reflection, I accepted his invitation as an opportunity to tell mainstream U.S. sociologists every-

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Section: Reflexivitymentioning

confidence: 97%

Section: Frustrations Over False Dichotomiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Reflexivitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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