Our intention is for the interviews to be used not only for research purposes, but also in the classroom. The interviews offer students the opportunity to hear criminology from a scholar's own voice—including the voices of those who have since passed away.
The Oral History of Criminology Project intends to conduct, and make available, interviews on a continuing basis. The generous participation of major figures in criminology—and of the scholars who volunteer to prepare for and conduct these interviews—promises to yield an invaluable living account of criminology and its impacts.
This page links to the taped oral history interviews of scholars with last names beginning with the letters A through D. Keywords are also attached to each video to highlight important themes. These videos are listed in alphabetical order.
Keywords: Creation of National Institute of Corrections, the Federal Bureau of Prisons, correctional administration, handling high profile inmates, changes in corrections and its future.
Norm Carlson - Oral History of Criminology
interviewed by Tony Travisano (1996)
William Chambliss - Oral History of Criminology
interviewed by Mark Hamm - Chicago, USA (1996)Keywords: Training at UCLA and Indiana University, qualitative work (Box Man, On the Take, and “The Saints and the Roughnecks”), Law, Order and Power, working within the critical criminology tradition, the War on Drugs, state organized crime.
Student Panel with Meda Chesney-Lind
Meda Chesney-Lind - Oral History of Criminology
interviewed by Merry Morash - San Francisco, USA (2014)
Keywords: USA, girls and delinquency, juvenile justice system, labelling, aggression, feminist scholars.
Roland Chilton - Oral History of Criminology
interviewed by Wenona Rymond-Richmond - Atlanta, USA (2013)
Keywords: USA, urban crime trends, crime statistics, characteristics of persons arrested.
Ronald V. Clarke - Oral History of Criminology
interviewed by Brendan Dooley - Newark, NJ (2015)
Keywords: Home Office (UK), Situational crime prevention, opportunity structure, natural experiments, environmental crime.
Marshall Clinard - Oral History of Criminology
Video 1: Marshall Clinard interviewed by Paul Friday (1996)
Keywords: Remarks on his studies in India, Sweden, Switzerland, Africa, critics of international work.
Video 2: interviewed by Gilbert Geis and Richard Quinney - Chicago, USA (1996)
Keywords: Training at Stanford and the University of Chicago, white collar crime, international work.
Albert Cohen - Oral History of Criminology
interviewed by John Laub - (1997)
Keywords: strain theory, youth gang formation, theory of delinquent gangs, training at Harvard under Robert Merton, training at Indiana University under Edwin Sutherland.
Robert Crutchfield - Oral History of Criminology
interviewed by Charis Kubrin - New Orleans, LA (2016)
Keywords: Vanderbilt University, University of Washington, labor markets, economic opportunity and crime, race and ethnicity, Racial Democracy, Crime & Justice Network.
Simon Dinitz - Oral History of Criminology
interviewed by Frank Scarpitti (1996)
Keywords: Containment Theory, Chicago School, social Disorganization, corrections, early research on violence, correctional research, delinquency.
Julius Debro - Oral History of Criminology
interviewed by John Hepburn - New Orleans, LA (2016)
Keywords: University of California Berkeley, University of Maryland, Atlanta University, Joint Commission on Criminology and Criminal Justice, corrections, ex-offenders, African Americans and criminal justice.
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