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.
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.
This page links to the taped oral history interviews of scholars with last names beginning with the letters L through M. Keywords are also attached to each video to highlight important themes. These videos are listed in alphabetical order.
Gary LaFree - Oral History of Criminology
interviewed by Brendan Dooley - College Park, USA (2012)
Keywords: USA, Indiana University, Criminal justice processing and legitimacy, homicide, global terrorism.
Elena Larrauri - Oral History of Criminology
interviewed by Jay Albanese - Porto, Portugal (2015)
Keywords: Spain, gender violence, discrimination, offender re-integration, criminal records, criminology in Europe.
Edward Latessa - Oral History of Criminology
Interviewed by Alexandra Holsinger - Kansas City, MO (2017)
Keywords: Ohio State University, University of Cincinnati, corrections, community corrections, policy research, program evaluation, recidivism, offender rehabilitation, Simon Dinitz, Harry Allen, Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, American Society of Criminology
John Laub - Oral History of Criminology
interviewed by Brendan Dooley - Washington, DC (2015)
Keywords: University at Albany, Oral History, empirical approaches, Gluecks' delinquency cohort data, life course criminology, National Institute of Justice.
Janet Lauritsen - Oral History of Criminology
interviewed by Brendan Dooley - Kansas City, MO (2015)
Keywords: Crime victimization, University of Illinois, gender, policy-oriented research.
Miklos Levay - Oral History of Criminology
interview with Eva Inzelt - Budapest, Hungary (2013)
Keywords: Hungary, criminology, criminal law, USA, criminology in Europe.
Alison Liebling - Oral History of Criminology
Interviewed by Diego Zysman Quiros - Buenos Aires, Argentina (2018)
Keywords: Cambridge University, Prisons Research Centre, prison officers, effects of imprisonment, prison life and values, moral performance, managerialism, suicide in prison, new penology.
Rolf Loeber - Oral History of Criminology
interviewed by David Farrington - Chicago, USA (2012)
Keywords: - USA, Netherlands, longitudinal studies, developmental research, Pittsburgh Youth Study, adolescent development, studies of Dutch youth.
Gerald W. Lynch - Oral History of Criminology
interviewed by Todd Clear - USA (2003)
Keywords: Establishing John Jay College of Criminal Justice, policing, international conferences, surviving 9/11, curriculum for policing and human dignity.
James Lynch - Oral History of Criminology
Interviewed by Brendan Dooley - College Park, MD (2017)
Keywords: Wesleyan University, University of Chicago, American University, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, American Society of Criminology, National Crime Survey, criminal justice data and statistics, survey design, international statistics.
Cheryl Maxson - Oral History of Criminology
interviewed by Brendan Dooley - (2017)
Keywords: University of Southern California, University of California Irvine, youth violence, juvenile justice, policing street gangs, program evaluation, civil gang injunctions, program evaluation, Eurogang Project.
Lorraine Mazerolle - Oral History of Criminology
Interviewed by David Weisburd - Atlanta, GA (2018)
Keywords: University of Queensland, American Society of Criminology, Rutgers University, Ron Clarke, policing, drug markets, civil remedies, third party policing, Freda Adler, Frank Cullen, mentoring, international criminology
Alida Merlo - Oral History of Criminology
interviewed by Peter Benekos - Kansas City, MO (2017)
Keywords: Youngstown State University, Northeastern University, Fordham University, Westfield State University, juvenile justice, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, evidence-based practice, juvenile crime, disproportionate minority confinement, Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Prison Rape Elimination Act, European Society of Criminology.
Robert K. Merton - Oral History of Criminology
interviewed by Albert Cohen - New York City, USA (1997)
Keywords: Anomie theory, social structure and anomie, functional analysis, anomie and strain, reactions to Hirschi, developments within the anomie tradition (Agnew), white collar crime.
Steven F. Messner - Oral History of Criminology
interviewed by Eric P. Baumer - Atlanta, USA (2013)
Keywords: USA, social organization and crime, institutional anomie theory, criminal homicide, Germany, spatial patterns of violent crime, crime in China.
Terrie Moffitt - Oral History of Criminology
interviewed by Brendan Dooley - Washington,D.C., USA (2012)
Keywords: USA, developmental taxonomy, Dunedin Study, genetics and crime, life-course criminology, longitudinal research.
Norval Morris - Oral History of Criminology
interviewed by Michael Tonry - Chicago, USA (1996)
Keywords: Sentencing policy, death penalty in Sri Lanka, studying under Hermann Mannheim, Book: The Honest Politician’s Guide to Crime Control, prison programming, the insanity defense.
Gerhard O.W. Mueller - Oral History of Criminology
interviewed by James Finckenauer - Philadelphia, USA (1997)
Keywords: Escaping from Hitler’s Germany, criminal justice in law schools, working at the United Nations, The World Crime Survey, globalization and crime, international and comparative criminal law.
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