Cultural Criminology, Criminology

This unpublished article needs a lot of work.  Any takers?

This paper takes O’Brien’s critique of cultural criticism as a starting point to argue for a more
fully cultured criminology. It recognises the defects that O’Brien and others note in cultural
criminology but strongly argues for the merit of the cultural approach but a more fully cultural, or
cultured, approach. It takes issue with some aspects of both the critique and the practice of
cultural criminology. Examples are given of what might constitute a cultured criminology and
work more deserving of O’Brien’s accusation of zookeeping is highlighted.