Governing through Crime, August 15, 2010 by Jonathan Simon
http://governingthroughcrime.blogspot.com/2010/08/public-criminology-cool-read-on-hot.html
Loader and Sparks respond to the scientific ambitions of many criminologists in a way that is respectful, illuminating, and in the end, devastating to the pretensions of this ambition. Drawing on the growing field of “science studies,” they make the point that the natural sciences are hardly a model for how science can lead rather than be dominated by politics. Indeed, the very field from which they draw their “hot climate” metaphor is a perfect example of how deeply politicized the natural sciences are.