Citation

Köchel S. Arch. Kriminol. 2013; 232(3-4): 119-127.

Vernacular Title

Idealtyp und Geschichte--Zur Kritik der Angewandten Kriminologie.

Affiliation

Hans-Gross-Kriminalmuseum der Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2013, Verlag Schmidt-Romhild)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

24358623

Abstract

Applied Criminology describes an established criminological school in the German-speaking area, which was founded by Hans Göppinger and Michael Bock, criminologists at Tübingen, in the 1980s and has meanwhile published a number of comprehensive basic methodological papers. The conceptual centrepiece with interdisciplinary approach is the formation and application of concepts referring to the so-called ideal type, which has been essentially inspired by the epistemology of Max Weber. However, the result of a critical reconstruction of these fundamentals is that the claimed interdisciplinary approach comes into conflict with a second much more phenomenological approach of Applied Criminology which is unable to comply with the political implications of criminological research and thus disavows the necessary historical relationality of the ideal type concepts.

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