NCJ Number
120847
Journal
Justice Quarterly Volume: 6 Issue: 3 Dated: (September 1989) Pages: 325-332
Date Published
1989
Length
8 pages
Annotation
In his response to "Personality and Crime," Professor Gibbons took issue with several of our specific points.
Abstract
Several of these points are reviewed in this rejoinder, and we list our rationalizations for naming names (or for what Gibbons calls our "verbal thumping" of individual criminologists). More important, we find that Gibbons agrees on the need for a self-consciously "social" criminology to display greater respect for both evidence and human diversity. The paper closes with a specification of the criterion variable within the psychology of crime and with an appeal for an openness to the full range of potential covariates of that criterion variable, be they biological, personal, or social. 11 references. (Publisher abstract)