Tim Newburn has been Professor of Criminology and Social Policy at the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ since 2002. He was Head of Department of Social Policy from 2010-13 and Director of the Mannheim Centre for Criminology from 2003-2009. Prior to joining ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ he was Joseph Rowntree Professor of Urban Social Policy at Goldsmiths, University of London and Director of the Public Policy Research Unit (1997-2002). He has also worked at the University of Leicester (1982-85), the Home Office Research & Planning Unit (1985-90), the National Institute for Social Work (1990-92) and the Policy Studies Institute (1992-97).
He is the author of over 40 books, including: The Future of Policing (with Morgan, Oxford University Press, 1997); (with Jones, Clarendon Press, 1998); (with Jones, Open University Press, 2007); (3rd edition, Routledge, 2017) and (Oxford University Press, 2018). His latest books are with Ward, Little Brown, 2022), and (Routledge, November 2022, with David Downes).
Tim was editor of the journal Policy Studies (1995-2001), the founding editor of Criminology and Criminal Justice (2001-2006) and is General Editor of Routledge’s series, and a series editor of . He was elected to the Academy of Learned Societies in the Social Sciences in 2005, and was President of the British Society of Criminology from 2005-2008.
Tim’s research has spanned a number of areas including policing, restorative justice, youth justice, drugs and alcohol, comparative policy making and urban violence. He was the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳’s lead on Reading the Riots, their prize-winning research with the Guardian on the 2011 disorder, and with Professors David Downes and Paul Rock is currently working on an Official History of Criminal Justice.
Curriculum Vitae
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Tim supervises doctoral studies in areas including:
Policing; History of criminal justice policy; Comparative criminal justice policy/punishment; Riots and disorder.