Like knowledge generally, so is scholarly knowledge reflective of the institutional context in which it is produced. A series of articles, partly based on NSF-funded research examines the effect of time, institutional context and funding sources on criminological knowledge.

[Research that examined the conditions of knowledge production in the field of US- criminology was supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation, Program for Law and Social Science (1993-95)]

• Joachim J. Savelsberg and Robert J. Sampson. 2002.  “Mutual Engagement: Criminology and Sociology.” Crime, Law, and Social Change, Vol. 37, No. 2, pp. 99-105.
  
• Joachim J. Savelsberg, Ryan King, and Lara Cleveland. 2002. “Politicized Scholarship? Science on Crime and the State.”  Social Problems, Vol. 49, No. 3, pp. 327-348.
  
• Joachim Savelsberg and Sarah M. Flood. 2004. “Period and Cohort Effects in the Production of Scholarly Knowledge: The Case of Criminology, 1951-1993." Criminology, Vol. 42, No. 4, pp. 1009-1041.
  
• Joachim J. Savelsberg, Lara L. Cleveland, and Ryan D. King. 2004. "Institutional Environments and Scholarly Work: American Criminology, 1951-1993." Social Forces, Vol. 82, No. 4, pp. 1275-1302.
  
• Joachim J. Savelsberg and Sarah M. Flood. 2011. “American Criminology meets Collins: Intellectual Change in a Policy-Oriented Field.” Sociological Forum, Vol. 26, No 1, pp. 21-44.
  
• Joachim J. Savelsberg and Sarah M. Flood. 2011. “Social and Intellectual Context of Criminology.” Oxford Bibliographies Online: Criminology, edited by Richard Rosenfeld. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  
• Joachim J. Savelsberg, Lorine A. Hughes, Janne Kivivuori, James F. Short, Jr., Maximo Sozzo, Richard Sparks. 2015. “Criminology, History of” International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences (Section on “History of the Social and Behavioral Sciences”).
  
• Joachim J. Savelsberg. 2017. “Criminology in the United States.” In The Wiley Handbook of the History and Philosophy of Criminology, edited by Ruth Triplett. Wiley.