Criminology's Public Domain

Criminology’s Public Domain — Call for Recommendations

Purpose

This Curation Hub, Criminology’s Public Domain, will centralize historic works that are CC0 due to age. The Curators especially welcome nominations for works that are non-English language, written outside the US and UK, by female and non-white authors.

People

This Hub is supported by CrimRxiv Consortium, with extra support from our Member, the Oral History of Criminology Project (OHCP). The Curators are faculty of Consortium Members, led by Brendan Dooley and Scott Jacques.

Process

Anyone may nominate a work for inclusion on this Hub. Your nomination should include the work’s bibliographic details; and, an abstract-length explanation of why it should be included on this Hub.

Product

The Curators’ selected works will be featured on this page. If your nomination is selected, and you were the first to nominate the work, you’ll be given credit and the opportunity to publish your explanation.

Curation Hubs

CrimRxiv Consortium

Oral History of Criminology Project

An Essay [Excerpt] on Crimes and Punishments

by Cesare Beccaria

Published: Jan 08, 2025

Laws are the conditions, under which men, naturally independent, united themselves in society. Weary of living in a continual state of war, and of enjoying a liberty which became of little value, from the uncertainty of its duration, they sacrificed one part of it, to enjoy ...

Community Organization and Juvenile Delinquency[: A Chapter from The City]

by Robert E. Park

Published: Nov 03, 2024

In view of the fact that man is so manifestly—as Aristotle described him—a political animal, predestined to live in association with, and dependence upon, his fellows, it is strange and interesting to discover, as we are compelled to do, now and again, how utterly unfitted by ...

The Causes of Crime and Poverty[: An Excerpt from The Philadelphia Negro]

by W. E. Burghardt Du-Bois

Published: Apr 16, 2024

In November, 1897, I submitted to the American Academy of Political and Social Science a plan for the study of the Negro problems. This work is an essay along the lines there laid down, and is thus part of a larger design of observation and research into the history and ...

Curation Hubs: A description and explanation of an initiative to advance open criminology

by Scott Jacques

Published: Mar 12, 2024

The CrimRxiv Consortium will advance open criminology (“open-crim”) with Curation Hubs: expert- and community-led Collections of already-published criminology outputs. Each Hub focuses on a criminological niche, showcasing its “best,” “exemplary,” or otherwise notable works. ...