Oral History of Criminology

Videos - Q-S

This page links to the taped oral history interviews of scholars with last names beginning with the letters Q through S. Keywords are also attached to each video to highlight important themes. These videos are listed in alphabetical order.

Richard Quinney
Richard Quinney - Oral History of Criminology
interviewed by John Laub - Chicago, USA (1996)
Keywords: Criminology and politics, influence of Marx, theoretical-academic work versus applied, Peacemaking Criminology, radical criminology and mainstream.
Leon Radzinowicz
Leon Radzinowicz - Oral History of Criminology
interviewed by Marvin Wolfgang - Philadelphia, USA (1997)
Keywords: England, Poland, criminology, criminal law, capital punishment, policy.
Nicole Hahn Rafter
Nicole Hahn Rafter - Oral History of Criminology
interviewed by Chester Britt - San Francisco, USA (2014)
Keywords: USA, social constructionism, biology and crime, crime in film, women and crime, genocide.
Adrian Raine
Adrian Raine - Oral History of Criminology
interviewed by Brendan Dooley - Philadelphia, PA (2016)
Keywords: United Kingdom, University of Southern California, Sanford Mednick, biological basis of anti-social behavior, schizophrenia, brain imaging, social versus biological causes of criminal behavior.
Albert Reiss
Albert Reiss - Oral History of Criminology
interviewed by Lawrence Sherman - Boston, USA (1995)
Keywords: Studying at Chicago, personal and social controls, victimization studies (serial victimization), police/public interaction, police corruption, “The Social Integration of Queers and Peers” (labeling theory), observational research, co-offending.
Richard Rosenfeld
Richard Rosenfeld - Oral History of Criminology
interviewed by Brendan Dooley - Atlanta, USA (2013)
Keywords: USA, violent crime, crime statistics, crime control policy, institutional anomie theory, crime trends.
Joachim Savelsberg
Joachim Savelsberg - Oral History of Criminology
interviewed by Ryan King - New Orleans, LA (2016)
Keywords: Germany, sentencing, white collar crime, human rights, genocide, punishment, comparative criminology.
Ernesto Savona
Ernesto Savona - Oral History of Criminology
interview with Jay Albanese - Chicago, USA (2012)
Keywords: Italy, criminology, law, transnational crime, organized crime.
Frank Scarpitti
Frank Scarpitti - Oral History of Criminology
interviewed by Brendan Dooley - Washington, D.C. (2011)
Keywords: Ohio State, Walter Reckless, University of Delaware, containment Theory, community mental health, organized crime, community mental health movement.
Margaret Shaw
Margaret Shaw - Oral History of Criminology
interviewed by Rosemary Barberet - Doha, Qatar (2015)
Keywords: Canada, UK Home Office, policy research, comparative work, International Centre for the Pevention of Crime, community safety, international approaches, good practices, grey literature, gender.
James Short
James Short - Oral History of Criminology
interviewed by Geoffrey Alpert (1996)
Keywords: Gang research, self-reported delinquency research, Chicago School/neighborhoods,studying sociology at Chicago, self-reported delinquency studies, Book: Group Processes and Gang Delinquency.
Neal Shover
Neal Shover - Oral History of Criminology
interviewed by Heath Copes - Washington, D.C. USA (2011)
Keywords: qualitative research, white collar crime, active offender research, prison sociologist, Great Pretenders, class and crime.
Dina Siegel
Dina Siegel - Oral History of Criminology
interviewed by Jay Albanese - Washington, DC (2015)
Keywords: The Netherlands, anthropological approach, ethnography, organized crime, migration, human trafficking, European Society of Criminology, diamond smuggling, cultural criminology, terrorism, crime and music.
Jonathan Simon & Malcolm Feeley
Jonathan Simon & Malcolm Feeley
interviewed by Diego Zysman Quiros and Mariano Sicardi - Berkeley, CA (2018)
Keywords: New penology, actuarial justice, criminal justice, preventive detention, prediction, risk assessment, punishment, American Society of Criminology.
Sonja Snacken
Sonja Snacken - Oral History of Criminology
interview with Hilde Tubex - Prague, Czech Republic (2014)
Keywords: Belgium, criminology, corrections, prisons, human rights.
Gresham Sykes
Gresham Sykes - Oral History of Criminology
interviewed by Robert Heiner - Philadelphia, USA (1997)
Keywords: corrections, imprisonment, techniques of neutralization, the evolution of sociology/ criminology’s science, ethnographic work for Society of Captives, the state of prisons.