The British Journal of Sociology
Volume 56 No 3 September 2005
pages 473-491
Abstract
Criminologists display a largely unexamined propensity to ignore writings that are more than fifteen or so years old, with evident consequences for the public presentation and validation of expert knowledge. A citation study was combined with detailed observations from British criminologists to ascertain quite how that disavowal of the past was accomplished.
Keywords: Citation research, sociology of knowledge, chronocentrism
Paul Rock
Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science