Future Perspectives on Crime History as “Connected History”

It is difficult to image an “unconnected history”. A strange beast indeed would be a piece of historical research that did not reference other scholars, different periods of history, or congruent disciplinary perspectives: this would be so odd, in fact, that we might hardly regard such a piece of work as worth reading. This essay, then, does not focus on the validity of connected histories, so much as the levels of connectivity, the mechanisms by which we have joined together our research to ...