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Foreword : The state of public criminology - progress and challenges -- Introduction: Public criminology reconsidered - an invitation -- Part I. The emergence of public criminologies. Everything still to play for : revisiting public criminologies : diverse perspectives on academia and policy -- Re-thinking public criminology : politics, paradoxes, and challenges -- Where is the public in public criminology? Towards a participatory public criminology -- The challenge of transformative justice : insurgent knowledge and public criminology -- Articulation of liberation criminologies and public criminologies : advancing a countersystem approach and decolonization pardigm -- Part II. Engaging publics. A revolution in prosecution : the campaign to end mass incarceration in Philadelphia -- Reflctions from an accidental public scholar -- Engaging the public : access to justice for those most vulnerable -- Public feminist criminologies : reflections on the activist-scholar in violence against women policy -- Liberating abortion pills in legally restricted settings : activism as public criminology -- Part III. Barriers and challenges. Strangers within : carving out a role for engaged scholarship in the university space -- The push and pull of going public : barriers and risks to mobilizing criminological knowledge -- Public criminology in China : neither public nor criminology -- A case for a public pacific criminology? -- The challenges of academics engaging in environmental justice activism -- Part IV. Critiques and critical reflections. You're a criminologist? What can you offer us? Interrogating criminological expertise in the context of white collar crime -- Our North is the South : lessons from researching police-community encounters in Sāo Paulo and Los Angeles -- Confronting politics of death in Papua -- Rethinking how the public counts in public criminology -- Does the public need criminology? -- Part V. Future trajectories. Starting the conversation in the classroom : pedagogy as public criminology -- You are on Indigenous Land : acknowledgment and action in criminology -- Time to think about patriarchy? Public criminology in an era of misogyny -- Value-responsible design and sexual violence interventions : engaging value-hypotheses in making the criminological imagination -- Abolitionism as a philosophy of hope : inside-outsiders and the reclaiming of democracy.

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Sociological Foundations of Computational Social Science -- Chapter 3. Methodological contributions of computational social science to sociology -- Chapter 4. Computational Social Science: A Complex Contagion -- Chapter 5. Model of meaning -- Chapter 6. Sociological Meaning of Contagion -- Chapter 7. Polarization of Opinion -- Chapter 8. Coda.

Canadian universities have not been as enterprising as their American neighbours in seeking out new ways of serving the community; but they have deviated far enough from the straight and narrow path of academic scholarship to develop a sense of guilt for which atonement may be offered by devoting a part of their resources to the promotion of graduate studies.In the United States we find a desperate effort being made to save the M.A. degree from the fate which has befallen the B.A. degree, by applying truly heroic remedies, such as insistence on serious qualifications for admission to candidacy, on "graduate standards of attainment," on "proper use of spoken and written English," on "a reading knowledge of at least one foreign language … as indispensable background and not merely as a tool for research." A candidate should have obtained "an average grade which places him in at least the first third of his class" and "due attention should be paid to those qualities known as personality and, in particular, to moral character."A sense of guilt may be a very potent force, but it requires rationalization. Various reasons have been assigned for promoting graduate studies in Canada. Professor Brebner contends that an increased output of scholars, retained in Canada, could be employed in "the creation of Canadian culture." In so doing they would solve what Professor Brebner considers ought to be "the most urgent problem for Canadian post-war planners," namely "how to make Canada so cordial and attractive a place" that Canadians "who excel in any field" will be content to live and work there. It is nearly fifty years since American universities set about the task of meeting "needs for the satisfaction of which approximately 300 out of a total of some 500 advanced students at the time considered it necessary to go abroad." Canadians have continued to pursue graduate studies in other countries, but it is possible to argue that young Canadians cannot rely as much as in the past on the opportunities offered for advanced work at British and American universities.

Conte, R. et al. ; The increasing integration of technology into our lives has created unprecedented volumes of data on society's everyday behaviour. Such data opens up exciting new opportunities to work towards a quantitative understanding of our complex social systems, within the realms of a new discipline known as Computational Social Science. Against a background of financial crises, riots and international epidemics, the urgent need for a greater comprehension of the complexity of our interconnected global society and an ability to apply such insights in policy decisions is clear. This manifesto outlines the objectives of this new scientific direction, considering the challenges involved in it, and the extensive impact on science, technology and society that the success of this endeavour is likely to bring about. © The Author(s) 2012. ; The publication of this work was partially supported by the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007–2013) under grant agreement No. 284709, a Coordination and Support Action in the Information and Communication Technologies activity area ('FuturICT' FET Flagship Pilot Project). ; Peer Reviewed

I. General Methodology -- A New Epitheoretical Analysis of Social Theories; A Reconstruction of their Background Knowledge including a Model of Statistical Decision Theory -- Theories and Phenomena -- Partial Interpretation and Microeconomics -- The Foundation of Science on Cognitive Mini-Models, with Applications to the German Methodenstreit and the Advent of Econometrics -- II. Methods for Laying the Foundations of Social Systems and Social Structures -- Systems of Social Exchange -- The Concept of Social Structure -- Societies and Social Decision Functions -- Honing Occam's Razor: A General System Theory Perspective on Social Science Methodology -- III. Vagueness, Imprecision and Uncertainty in Social Laws and Forecasts -- Toward Fuzzy Reasoning in the Behavioral Sciences -- Evolutionary Laws in the Social Sciences -- Methodological Analysis of Imprecision in the Assessment of Personal Probabilities -- The Necessity, Sufficiency and Desirability of Experts as Value Forecasters -- Rational Choice Models and Self-Fulfilling and Self-Defeating Prophecies -- IV. Methodology of Statistics and Hypothesis Testing -- Statistical Probabilities: Single Case Propensities vs. Long-Run Frequencies -- Variety of Objects as a Parameter for Experimentation: An Extension of Carnap's Inductive Logic -- The Strategic Combination Argument -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.