Tim Newburn is Professor of Criminology and Social Policy, London School of Economics.
Prior to joining LSE, he was Director of the Public Policy Research Unit at Goldsmiths College from 1997, having previously worked at the Policy Studies Institute, the National Institute for Social Work, the Home Office and Leicester University.
He is the author or editor of over 30 books, including: Permission and Regulation: Law and Morals in Post-war Britain (Routledge, 1991); The Future of Policng (with Morgan, Oxford University Press, 1997); Private Security and Public Policing (with Jones, Clarendon Press, 1998); Handbook of Policing (Willan, 2008); Policy Transfer and Criminal Justice (with Jones, Open University Press, 2007); and, Criminology (Routledge, 2012).
Tim Newburn was President of the British Society of Criminology (2005-08) and Director of the Mannheim Centre for Criminology (2003-08) and was elected to the Academy of Learned Societies in the Social Sciences in 2005. With Paul Rock and David Downes he is currently writing an Official History of Criminal Justice.
Experience
–present
Professor of Criminology and Social Policy, London School of Economics
1997–2002
Joseph Rowntree Professor of Urban Social Policy, Goldsmiths College
1993–1997
Senior Fellow, Policy Studies Institute
1990–1993
Research Director, Hillsborough Project, National Institute for Social Work
1985–1990
Research Officer/Senior Research Officer, Home Office Research and Planning Unit
Publications
2012
Criminology, Routledge
2010
The Eternal Recurrence of Crime and Control, Oxford University Press
2010
Sage Handbook of Criminological Theory, Sage
2008
Handbook of Policing , Willan
2007
Policy Transfer and Criminal Justice, Open University Press
2006
The Politics of Crime Control, Oxford University Press
2003
Youth Offending and Restorative Justice, Willan
2003
Crime and Criminal Justice Policy, Longman
1998
Private Security and Public Policing , Oxford University Press
1997
Policing after the Act, Policy Studies Institute
1997
The Future of Policing , Oxford University Press
1994
Just Boys Doing Business: Men, masculinities and crime, Routledge
1994
Democracy and Policing , Policy Studies Institute
1994
Young Offenders and Media, Policy Studies Institute
1994
Persistent Young Offenders, Policy Studies Institute
1991
Permission and Regulation`: Law and morals in post-war Britain, Routledge