Cultural literacy in criminology

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The cultural literacy perspective in education suggests that all cultural systems have a set of core ideas that form the basis of communication in that culture. Because of that the perspective holds that it is essential for the educational system to teach those ideas to successive generations of students to facilitate communication and to perpetuate the “shared” quality of culture. This article examines the relevance of this general perspective for education in one area of scientific inquiry. It argues that there is a specific “cultural literacy” in criminology (and by extension in all disciplines) and attempts to identify its content for criminology.

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