Curiosity and Criminology: Reflections on Dr. Richard Rosenfeld’s Scholarship

Session Submission Type: Meeting

Abstract/Description

This panel is discussion-based and focuses on Dr. Rick Rosenfeld’s scholarship and career. Panelists will identify Rick’s important contributions to the field of criminology by considering his work in a broad sense and through their respective collaborative relationships with him. Themes to be covered include crime trends, their causes, and related policy; crime forecasting; and Crime and the American Dream. In his final public comment on the field of criminology, among other important observations, Rick said “…the cardinal quality of a good social scientist is curiosity…” The audience will leave this session knowing the important places that Rick’s curiosity took him during his career and the ways that criminology has benefited from that.

Sub Unit

• Tributes

Chair

• Chris Sullivan, University of Missouri-St. Louis

Participants

• Steven F. Messner, University at Albany, SUNY

• Eric P. Baumer, Pennsylvania State University

• Charis E. Kubrin, University of California, Irvine