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Editor’s Introduction

Editor’s Introduction Law and Human Behavior, Vot. 6, Nos. 3/4, 1982 Harold E. Pepinsky* LESSON ONE I had been a student of law and human behavior for some years before I read Roth- man's Discovery of the Asylum (1971), my first exposure to a historian's view of the field. I was fascinated to see that what well could be taken for current scholarly debates had been carried on a century ago. In a healthy climate of intellectual debate, today's researchers were claiming that their findings rested on use of newly developed analyt- ical methods, that they were introducing new knowledge to our field. But despite computer-assisted multivariate analysis, I found that contemporary results--and criti- cism of others' results--replicated forebears'. Thereafter, a historian-colleague introduced me to other historians at an ongoing seminar on my campus and in the Social Science History Association. Repeatedly since, particularly in my own specialty, criminology, I have been exposed to precedent for the latest claims to knowledge and shifts in policy. Just now, a reading of Melossi and Pavarini's The Prison and the Factor 3, (1981) has taught me that current themes in American penal thought and practice were prominant in parts of Europe at least four http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Law and Human Behavior American Psychological Association

Editor’s Introduction

Pepinsky, Harold E.
Law and Human Behavior , Volume 6 (3-4): 7 – Sep 1, 1982
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American Psychological Association
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Copyright © 1982 American Psychological Association
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0147-7307
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1573-661X
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10.1007/BF01044294
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Law and Human Behavior, Vot. 6, Nos. 3/4, 1982 Harold E. Pepinsky* LESSON ONE I had been a student of law and human behavior for some years before I read Roth- man's Discovery of the Asylum (1971), my first exposure to a historian's view of the field. I was fascinated to see that what well could be taken for current scholarly debates had been carried on a century ago. In a healthy climate of intellectual debate, today's researchers were claiming that their findings rested on use of newly developed analyt- ical methods, that they were introducing new knowledge to our field. But despite computer-assisted multivariate analysis, I found that contemporary results--and criti- cism of others' results--replicated forebears'. Thereafter, a historian-colleague introduced me to other historians at an ongoing seminar on my campus and in the Social Science History Association. Repeatedly since, particularly in my own specialty, criminology, I have been exposed to precedent for the latest claims to knowledge and shifts in policy. Just now, a reading of Melossi and Pavarini's The Prison and the Factor 3, (1981) has taught me that current themes in American penal thought and practice were prominant in parts of Europe at least four

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Published: Sep 1, 1982

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