Tarpdiscipliniškumo iššūkis kriminologijoje
The Challege of Interdisciplinarity in Criminology

Summary/Abstract: This article examines the challenges and difficulties of an interdisciplinary approach in criminology. It does so by first briefly describing criminology’s history, thereby pointing at its rather weak epistemological history. More in depth, the development of criminology in the Netherlands is analysed in this respect. Though today criminology is an extremely popular subject amongst students and policymakers alike, this has not always been the case. The role of criminologists in the public debate on crime and punishment has changed qui te substantially over time as well. Key-questions with respect to criminology’s present and future are: how to apply the ideal of interdisciplinarity in a meaningful way in our teaching?; how to approach the topical criminological themes in our globalised world?; and how to maintain academic freedom in acontext in which policymakers expect a lot of criminologists?

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