ABSTRACT
It is perhaps strange that a handbook on criminology contains a chapter such as this, because it contends that criminology, as it is generally studied and practiced, has not advanced the understanding of crime and criminality as much as one might have wished; that it is not currently much studied or used by practitioners; that the direction in which it is moving is not likely to enhance its value; and that therefore the study of crime should be rebadged in an attempt to engage a wider range of disciplines and identify betweendiscipline synergies in the study of crime and its prevention. e chapter will seek to justify such disengagement from criminology by reference to the current condition of that discipline and the organizational consequences of the mindset underpinning it, provide some examples of the ways in which engagement with other disciplines would be productive, and identify some confusions about what the emergent discipline amounts to.
