ABSTRACT
Into the 1960s many criminologists were convinced that their discipline was a credible and successful social science working with a widely accepted set of theoretical models producing high-quality research. Yet the 1960s and 1970s proved to be decades when conventional criminology was exposed to substantial, even damaging, criticism. That criticism continues unabated into the early twenty-first century as various kinds of critics snap at the heels of mainstream criminology.
