Oral History of Criminology

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.

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.

Ross Matsueda - Oral History of Criminology
interviewed by Brendan Dooley - Seattle, WA (2015)
Keywords: differential association, social control, labeling, rational choice theory, Donald Cressey, George Herbert Mead, neighborhoods and crime, life course trajectories, drug use and crime.

Donal MacNamara - Oral History of Criminology
interviewed by Barbara Raffel Price (1996)
Keywords: Founding of American Society of Criminology, editor Criminology Studies at Columbia and New York University, the emergence of the field (professional organizations and departments). 

Joan McCord - Oral History of Criminology
interviewed by John Laub - Chicago, USA (1996)
Keywords: Studying psychology at Harvard and Stanford, working with the Gluecks, early developmental work, Cambridge-Sommerville Youth Study.

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.

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.