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26 Crim. Just. Stud. 1 (2013)

handle is hein.journals/cjscj26 and id is 1 raw text is: Criminal Justice Studies, 2013 Routedge Vol. 26, No. 1, 1-18, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1478601X.2012.706753 P ,r ., The Sutherland tradition in criminology: a bibliometric story Tage Ingemar Alalehto* and Olle Persson Department of Sociology, Umea University, University Area, Umed 01 879, Sweden In this article, we provide an overview of the body of knowledge associated with the Sutherland tradition in criminology. We track Sutherland's impact through a bibliometric analysis of papers citing any of Sutherland's works and by focusing on publications that are co-cited with Sutherland. This approach enables us to visualize Sutherland's role in relation to the forerunners and founding fathers of criminology during his own active period, to his followers, and to contemporary scholars. The dataset consisted of 2596 genuine articles that cite at least one of Sutherland's publications, in which he appears as first author in Web of ScienceTM published between 1955 and 2010. The results show a clear impact of the Sutherland tradition more or less throughout the twentieth century, peaking during the 1930s and 1940s and decreasing in the 1990s, when the Sutherland tradition was more powerfully challenged, primarily by the life- course tradition. Keywords: body of knowledge in criminology; Sutherland tradition; bibliomet- ric analysis Introduction During the 1930s, Edwin H. Sutherland established the sociological model of crime in criminology, and this model has since become one of the most influential paradigms in the field (Laub, 2004; Laub & Sampson, 1991). With his books Principles of Criminology and The Professional Thief, and the influential work White-Collar Crime, Sutherland laid the groundwork for the coming knowledge base in criminology as a scientific discipline. Heavily inspired by the Chicago School's ethnographic and ecological approaches, Sutherland integrated the concepts of social disorganization and diver- gent learning into the theory of differential association. This theory quite soon became a dominant theoretical approach in the discipline of criminology (Bernard, 1990)1 and was related to several other approaches, such as sub-cultural theory (Miller, 1958), delinquency and opportunity (Cohen, 1966; Cloward & Ohlin, 1960), neutralization or rationalization theories (Cressey, 1953; Sykes & Matza, 1957), and theories of social learning (Burgess & Akers, 1966). The theory of dif- ferential association pleased the sociologist, because Sutherland was professionally a sociologist, not a criminologist. Thus, he was critical of all kinds of reductionism such as psychological approaches, which searched after the aetiology of crime in individual properties, not to mention the approaches that searched after aetiology in *Corresponding author. Email: tage.alalehto@soc.umu.se © 2013 Taylor & Francis

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