ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the task of identifying and discussing a silent but growing threat to the academic ideal of open scientific inquiry: the combined marketisation of research dissemination by publishers and universities; and the resultant trend towards the corporatisation of criminological research within academia. There is an extensive literature about the marketisation of universities in the USA, UK and elsewhere though most of it has focused on competition for students rather than on competition for research funds. The concept of corporatist criminologies is an ideal type and there is no intention of implying that the research practices of all criminologists are totally shaped by their university's corporatist interest. The growing nexus between funding and the "impact" of academic research risks creating perverse incentives that may affect the issues that academics choose to address and how they go about doing so. Good criminological research is carried out in a range of agencies unconnected with universities.
