However, it is a matter of personality whether any one of us will confront colleagues. Critical criminologists are not licked yet and never will be on the practice of stating irregular interpretations of crime and crime control. True, there have always been critical criminologists who have exposed the truth, with varying degrees of success. In sum, truth is extraordinarily important to critical criminology. It is false in its statistical presentation and it is false in its degree of emotionality.
Scientific truth is rational.
Many critical and noncritical criminologists see the truth and wonder how it can be spread, not only to a resistant public, but also to reluctant undergraduates. Demanded, distorted university teaching is a tough issue but one in which we have more control than we realize. Depending upon where one works, criminology faculty are sometimes under pressure to tow the party line of getting tough on crime, the tougher the better, due process be damned, with no critical address of causality. Depending upon the university, faculty are discouraged from discussing certain topics, like the relationship between inequality and crime. Some of us have not succumbed to these pressures and some of us have lost our jobs as a result, but we continue to do our best to educate.