It’s Episode 84 and for this episode, we are hosting Professor Michael Gottfredson, who is speaking with us about his career as a criminologist, his work on self-control theory and the age-crime curve, and his thoughts on the field.
Michael Gottfredson is Chancellor’s Professor of Criminology, Law and Society, Sociology, and Law at the University of California, Irvine. From 2012 to 2014, he was President of the University of Oregon. He has written about the causes of crime, delinquency, and victimization, and about decision making in the criminal justice process. His work is focused on the implications of general theory about crime for research design and public policies and crime. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Criminology and the Western Society of Criminology.
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Get in touch with Michael:
University of California, Irvine Website // gottfred AT uci.edu
These are the books authored by Michael and his colleague that was discussed in this episode of The Crim Academy:
Gottfredson, M. R., & Hirschi, T. (1990). A general theory of crime. Stanford University Press.
Gottfredson, M., & Hirschi, T. (2019). Modern control theory and the limits of criminal justice. Oxford University Press.