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.
Lawerence W. Sherman
Lawrence W. Sherman - Oral History of Criminology
interviewed by John MacDonald - Philadelphia, PA (2017)Keywords: University of Pennsylvania, University of Cambridge, University of Maryland, American Society of Criminology, police response to domestic violence, evidence-based policing, Yale University, police corruption, Kansas city patrol experiment, hot spots policing, experimental criminology, Robert Peel, August Vollmer, Jerry Lee, Stockholm Prize, police education, police executive education, crime harm index.
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 Heith 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.
Sally Simpson
Sally Simpson - Oral History of Criminology
Interviewed by Carole Gibbs - Atlanta (2018)
Keywords: American Society of Criminology, Oregon State University, University of Massachusetts Amherst, James Short, Jim Short, Anthony R. Harris, Marshall Clinard, Peter Yeager, female offenders and victimization, Ray Paternoster, corporate Crime, deterrence, University of Maryland, Bureau of Justice Statistics.
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.