Dario Melossi, interviewed by Máximo Sozzo (2016)

Описание: Dario Melossi, interviewed by Máximo Sozzo
Münster, Germany, September 2016
16th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology (ESC)
European Criminology Oral History Project (ECOH)

The European Criminology Oral History project, better known as ECOH, was launched by the European Society of Criminology (ESC) at the Annual Conference of 2016 in Munster. ECOH is a ESC long-term project, and it aims to build a collective memory of European criminology by creating an archive of videotaped interviews of people who have made important contributions, starting with founders of the ESC, former ESC presidents, and ESC award winners.

In these interviews, we want to learn about people’s careers, about their research interests in the past and now, how and why they became involved in criminology, their career achievements, and their ideas about criminology in Europe and in their own countries. We also want to stimulate conversations, paying attention to both the person interviewed and the person interviewing. All of the interviewers had worked with the people they interviewed, sharing with them a long experience of academic cooperation, usually as a former PhD student or a close colleague. The interactions add a special quality to the tales of a single career.

This European archive, combined with the existing and still growing American one, will offer rich material for scholars interested in understanding historical, transnational, and comparative aspects of the development of criminology. The interviews will be also useful for teaching and will provide immensely valuable material for future generations. Finally, they will contribute to building the identity of European criminology.

The interviews conducted in Munster in 2016 and in Cardiff 2017 have been edited and are available on the ESC website (European Society of Criminology Channel). We will continue to interview European criminologists during the next conferences, in Sarajevo in 2018 and in Ghent in 2019. The project is currently supervised by former ESC President Rossella Selmini, with the assistance of Marco Calaresu, and of the videomaker Enrico Rassu.