ABSTRACT
The development of social scientific theory and knowledge takes place not just within the heads of individuals, but within particular institutional domains. These domains, in turn, are shaped by their surroundings: how academic institutions are organized, how disciplines are divided and subdivided, how disputes emerge, how research is funded and how findings are published and used. In criminology, an understanding of these institutional domains is especially important for knowledge is situated not just, or not even primarily, in the ‘pure’ academic world, but in the applied domain of the state’s crime control apparatus.
