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Public criminology, a concept with no official definition, is associated with the breaking down, development and effects of laws.

"Newsmaking criminology" is a sector of public criminology and is described as a way criminologies interpret and convey crimes that have occurred so that the public is informed on the matters. Public criminology is seen as a way of crime prevention, classroom education, conferences for academic purposes, public lectures, government hearings, newspapers, radio and television broadcasting and press releases are all versions of the concept. This is a resource for people are staying educated in more discreet ways, which is how public criminology is entwined within them.

Public criminologists focus on reshaping the image of a criminal and work with communities to find answers to pressing questions.

Proponents of public criminology see the topic as potentially narrowing "the yawning gap between public perceptions and the best available scientific evidence on issues of public concern," a problem they deem especially pertinent to matters of crime and punishment.

Ian Loader and Richard Sparks also expanded Burawoy’s(who is he?) ideas regarding public criminology. They wrote Public Criminology, which discusses who we(who is we?) are, our discipline, and how we impact each other.

Overseas from the U.S., there was institutionalized public criminology. The two locations were the Home Office Research Unit and the Cambridge Institute of Criminology. The first was created by Tom Lodge, an actuarial statistician, and the second was founded by Leon Radzinowicz. Radzinowicz and Lodge’s institution focused on altering the methods of criminology and Lodge's also focused on the way it was taught the way it was taught. Radzinowicz's institution focused on researching problems related to trends in crime, the treatment of offenders, and the reform of substantive criminal law and criminal procedure. In 1964, the Cambridge Institute of Criminology held the first national conference in criminology.

In addition, Ian Loader and Richard Sparks provide a sociological evaluation of criminologists and the way they shape their position to fit into social and political controversies to correctly illustrate them for the public to view. They use public criminology to advocate for the rehabilitation of offenders rather than the incarceration of them, prevent crime, and work to make the justice system more efficient and ethical