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Ideas for potential Interventions, including citations[edit]

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Planned Intervention[edit]

Here you will write one to two paragraphs, as a group, in which you describe (1) What the overall focus of your intervention will be (2) what sources you will use for this intervention, being as specific as possible (3) Where possible, a broad outline of the potential section should be included.

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Lead Section[edit]

Ideas for potential Interventions, including citations[edit]

Planned Intervention[edit]

Our aim will be to restructure the lead section in a way that fully captures the essence of what public criminology is. We will present the lead section in a way that is clearer to the average reader, which the current lead section fails to do. Retaining many of the current sources already present in the current lead section, we will describe what public criminology is and briefly summarize the sections that follow.

Background: The need for Public Crim[edit]

Ideas for potential Interventions, including citations[edit]

  • what problems does public criminology face. Davon0828 (talk) 16:13, 18 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Discuss what public criminology should aim to do Troyal15 (talk)]
  • Compare public criminology to other forms of criminology, Uggen, Christopher; Inderbitzin, Michelle (2010-10-06). "Public criminologies". Criminology & Public Policy. 9 (4): Troyal15 (talk)
  • Ways viewing issues through public criminology would be more useful than that of a different form of criminology. Lmullins19 (talk) 04:46, 18 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Introduce the idea of public misconception about crime Troyal15 (talk)
    • Explain how people are being misinformed about crime Jbrichan (talk) 15:20, 18 February 2019
  • Introduce how public criminology fits into the criminal justice and policy making process and the challenges it may face Troyal15 (talk)
  • Examples of ways public criminology is useful to the public such as with issues we are facing (or were facing). Lmullins19 (talk) 04:46, 18 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Elaborate on "...issues such as crime, punishment, criminal law, and criminal justice"? Lmullins19 (talk) 04:49, 18 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • how public criminology helps the public with policy making or informing the public. Kaylak23 (talk) 16:16, 18 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Planned Intervention[edit]

The focus of our intervention will be to highlight the public misconceptions and concerns about crime and why it is argued that there need be a more accessible and transparent form of criminology. We could also address the areas in which other forms of criminology leave gaps that public criminology can fill. The Uggen and Inderbitzin article could be used for examples of how public criminology takes shape; academia, within the media, research publications.

Background: The need for Pioneers[edit]

Ideas for potential Interventions, including citations[edit]

  • Describe some of the things earlier pioneers of public criminology have done, instead of just listing their names.Beauemu23 (talk) 18:16, 17 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Elaborate more on the importance of the facts that are stated. Beauemu23 (talk) 18:48, 17 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • More emphasis on explaining policy to the public. Tbyrd10 16:17, 18 February 2019 (UTC)
  • Explain criticisms early pioneers faced. Tbyrd10 16:26, 18 February 2019 (UTC)
  • What significance does George L. Kirkman’s book have on public criminology.Beauemu23 (talk) 18:48, 17 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Expand of the great society project.Beauemu23 (talk) 18:48, 17 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Explain criticisms early pioneers faced Kstein4 (talk) 16:20, 18 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • More detailed timeline of pioneers Kstein4 (talk) 16:20, 18 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Create a timeline of events that happened that includes all of the early pioneers and their contributions. --Aarnold15 (talk) 20:53, 17 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Include examples of how these contributions are implemented in criminology today. --Aarnold15 (talk) 20:53, 17 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • include and short background history on the early pioneers (hometown, education, etc) --Aarnold15 (talk) 20:53, 17 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Planned Intervention[edit]

The overall focus of these interventions is to bring awareness to the Early pioneers of public criminology and show how their contribution contributed to the existence of public criminology. A few of the sources used for this intervention come from the references that are attached to the article. One article in particular named “Christopher Uggen” who goes into detail about the what coined the term public criminology. Lloyd Ohlins great society projects main goal was the total elimination of poverty and racial injustice. This was an important step for public criminology especially because it was backed by the president of the time. Paul Rock was very skeptical of the idea of Public Criminology. He felt it was an unnecessary and undermined the legitimacy of Criminology

  • Other pioneers like Paul Rock, Todd Clear, Loader and Sparks, and Kenneth Land emphasized on Uggen and Inderbitzen’s work and reflected on Buroways definition of public criminology. It is important to reflect on these criminologist, their contributions, and the research they put forth to help make public criminology and permanent and important discipline. Without recognition of the earlier pioneers, we cannot move forward with new ones. --Aarnold15 (talk) 21:05, 17 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Citations

Loader, Ian, and Richard Sparks. 2010. “What Is to Be Done with Public Criminology?” Criminology & Public Policy 9 (4): 771–81. doi:10.1111/j.1745-9133.2010.00669.x.[1] Clear, Todd R. 2010. “Editorial Introduction to ‘Public Criminologies.’” Criminology & Public Policy 9 (4): 721–24. doi:10.1111/j.1745-9133.2010.00665.x. --Uggen, Christopher, and Michelle Inderbitzin. 2010. “Public Criminologies.” Criminology & Public Policy 9 (4): 725–49. doi:10.1111/j.1745-9133.2010.00666.x. Rock, Paul. 2010. “Comment on ‘Public Criminologies.’” Criminology & Public Policy 9 (4): 751–67. doi:10.1111/j.1745-9133.2010.00667.x. 2010. “Who Will Be the Public Criminologists? How Will They Be Supported?” Criminology & Public Policy 9 (4): 769–70. doi:10.1111/j.1745-9133.2010.00668.x.

Criticisms[edit]

Ideas for potential Interventions, including citations[edit]

  • Explain the criticisms of public criminology more
  • Add a section on steps to improve public criminology
  • Add examples regarding victim precipitation from Rock’s article
  • Examples referring to public sociology from articles we have discussed in class.
  • Cite criticism of from Lands article about who will be the public criminologists and how it can be a full-time career. MVetter15 (talk) 18:41, 17 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • See if we can find any other scholars we can include Asutton7 (talk) 21:35, 17 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Explain the concerns that Rock has Asutton7 (talk) 21:35, 17 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Further explain the findings from Sanders and Eisler Asutton7 (talk) 21:35, 17 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Rock, P. 2010. “Comment on ‘Public Criminologies.’” Criminology & Public Policy 9 (4): 751-764 Hcutler (talk) 21:58, 17 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Understand the critiques of public sociology in relation to public criminology. Kgreen50

Planned Intervention[edit]

As a group, our intervention will be focused on providing more criticisms of public criminology from different viewpoints and authors, as well as citing examples of what criminology could potentially be. Also fixing grammatical errors and adding a section on how to improve public criminology. We plan on using "A Comment on Public Criminology" by Rock in order to showcase his critique regarding victim precipitation and how the idea of victim precipitation became translated into victim blaming within the public. We also plan to use the other articles from this class. Our group may decide to use some outside sources as well if we come upon some that will work for our section. Our outline will include adding additional critiques to the existing examples as well as elaborating on some of the critiques such as those from Rock's article. Elaborating new and old critiques will include stating the critique and then stating why it is important to consider within the field of criminology. We plan to keep the bulk of what is already in the criticism section while adding more details and examples in order to extend the section.

Contemporary Examples[edit]

Ideas for potential Interventions, including citations[edit]

  • The influence public criminology has on the process of policy making. EMUramirez (talk) 17:04, 17 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • How does the public feel about public criminology, and how have those reactions changed throughout the years.EMUramirez (talk) 17:09, 17 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Remove the sentence "There are many current examples of public criminology." Can simply go straight into giving examples.EMUramirez (talk) 17:17, 17 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Every point should have a year attached to it and be relatively current. EMUramirez (talk) 17:23, 17 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • What the concept of Newsmaking Criminology has on Public Criminology.RosolinoM23 (talk) 19:15, 17 February 2019 (UTC)Rosolino Mannino[reply]
  • Use some examples of policies that were directly influenced by public criminology, if any.EMUramirez (talk) 23:07, 17 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • The influence of the media on public criminology Rowe, Michael. "Just like a TV Show: Public Criminology and the Media Coverage of ‘hunt for Britain’s Most Wanted Man’." Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal 9, no. 1 (2012): 23-38. doi:10.1177/1741659012438298.Jazlynn1 (talk) 15:20, 18 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Change structure from bullet format to more narrative. EMUramirez (talk) 16:14, 18 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Include examples of any programs in police departments, schools, or other community institutions that focus on or relate to public crimminology. NJaworski (talk) 04:12, 25 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Include websites related to public criminology, such as Objects.org and Deathscapes.org NJaworski (talk) 04:12, 25 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]


The main intervention of our section will be to find more examples of Public Criminology in our Criminal Justice system now and  the policy making of Public Criminology as a whole. Also, finding examples of different benefits the media has on public criminology. We believe that within the Public Criminology Wikipedia page, the students that did the research for our “Contemporary examples” section could've used more examples. Also, within Public Criminology, since the main focus of Public Criminology is to influence and include the public, I think it would be a good idea to include some examples of Newsmaking criminology. Newsmaking criminology is the idea that includes the effort of criminologists to participate in a manner to present “newsworthy” items about crime and justice (Barak, 1988). I believe this would be a good way to include the public in a way that they will be able to relate to the topic and also make it easy for them to understand the information that is given.Finally, we will be trying to make this section more into a narrative form.

Barak, Gregg. (1988). Newsmaking Criminology: Reflections on the Media, Intellectuals, and Crime. Justice Quarterly - JUSTICE Q. 5. 565-587. 10.1080/07418828800089891. RosolinoM23 (talk)19:23, 17 February 2019 (UTC)Rosolino Mannino[reply]

General Group (Orphans, formatting, etc)[edit]

Ideas for potential Interventions, including citations[edit]

  • Add a "see also" section at the bottom of the article linking to related subjects. GdusaEMU (talk) 02:12, 16 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Address the orphan problem by going to related pages and adding public criminology to their see also sections, or other areas. GdusaEMU (talk) 02:12, 16 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    • Finding the authors mentioned in the article on wikipedia as well and editing their pages to reflect public criminology. Jlyons15 (talk) 16:45, 16 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Find a way to add pictures to the article. GdusaEMU (talk) 02:12, 16 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Add more citations to the page where appropriate. Jlyons15 (talk) 16:45, 16 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Doing an overall clean up of the page to make it more attractive to other users Jlyons15 (talk) 16:45, 16 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    • Making sure the sections are in the proper order Jlyons15 (talk) 16:45, 16 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    • Correcting any grammatical mistakes Jlyons15 (talk) 16:45, 16 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    • Capitalizing the "C" in criminology in the title Jlyons15 (talk) 16:45, 16 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Adding related articles to references when incorporated into the "public criminology" article Alexandria Paliszewski (talk) 23:51, 17 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • finding a way to add a table or chart with some important authors and dates of public criminology Alexandria Paliszewski (talk) 23:51, 17 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • possibly editing the layout of the page, the order in which each section is on the article Alexandria Paliszewski (talk) 23:51, 17 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • for the orphan problem going to related articles talk pages and suggesting pubic criminology as a source Alexandria Paliszewski (talk) 23:51, 17 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Improve contents box. GdusaEMU (talk) 16:11, 18 February 2019 (UT

Planned Intervention[edit]

As a group, our goal is to clean up the Public Criminology page so that it is more attractive for users. The first step is to clean up the page by fixing any grammatical errors, adding more citations, adding reference photos, and making sure sections are in the right spot with appropriate section headings. This step is where we can add a "see also" section with external, related sources. After the page is clean, we want to increase the traffic to the page by visiting referenced material and adding links back to our page.

  1. ^ Loader, Ian; Sparks, Richard (2010-11). "What is to be done with public criminology?". Criminology & Public Policy. 9 (4): 771–781. doi:10.1111/j.1745-9133.2010.00669.x. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
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