Professor Ben Bowling
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Professor of Criminology & Criminal JusticeBen has a BA in Psychology from Manchester Metropolitan University (1985) and a PhD from the London School of Economics (1993). He was formerly Senior Research Officer in the Home Office (1988-1995), Assistant Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (1995-6) in New York City, Lecturer in Criminology at Cambridge University (1996-9) and Visiting Professor at the University of the West Indies (2004-5).
Ben has been involved in police research and the training and education of police officers and other criminal justice professionals since 1988. From 1996-9 he lectured in Applied Criminology at National Police Training, Bramshill on the Strategic Command Course, a requirement for Superintendents to be promoted to Chief Officer. He has been engaged in criminal justice policy development including contributing written evidence to the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry, acting as a consultant to the United Nations, UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Metropolitan Police, National Police Training, Home Office, Liberty and the Commission for Racial Equality. Ben has been a Lay Visitor to Police Stations, a member of the Metropolitan Police Independent Advisory Group. He currently sits on the Home Office Stop & Search Community Challenge Panel.
Ben coordinates undergraduate and postgraduate courses in criminology & criminal justice at King’s and has administrative responsibility as Director of Criminological Studies. He sits on the editorial boards of the British Journal of Criminology and Policing & Society and chairs the University of London social sciences grants committee. His current research interests focus on the fairness, effectiveness and accountability of policing in the local, national and transnational spheres.
Ben has published widely in the fields of crime, policing and community safety. His books include The Multi-agency Approach in Practice (Home Office 1991), Young People & Crime (Home Office, 1995), Violent Racism (Oxford University Press, 1999) Racism, Crime & Justice (Longman, 2002) and Human Rights & Policing (UNRISD, 2004). He is the co-author of two chapters – on ‘Racism, ethnicity, crime and criminal justice’ and ‘Policing & the Police’ – in the Oxford Handbook of Criminology (2002). He is currently writing up an ESRC funded study of ‘Transatlantic police cooperation’.
Ben coordinates undergraduate and postgraduate courses in criminology & criminal justice at King’s and has administrative responsibility as Director of Criminological Studies. He sits on the editorial boards of the British Journal of Criminology and Policing & Society and chairs the University of London social sciences grants committee. His current research interests focus on the fairness, effectiveness and accountability of policing in the local, national and transnational spheres.
Ben has published widely in the fields of crime, policing and community safety. His books include The Multi-agency Approach in Practice (Home Office 1991), Young People & Crime (Home Office, 1995), Violent Racism (Oxford University Press, 1999) Racism, Crime & Justice (Longman, 2002) and Human Rights & Policing (UNRISD, 2004). He is the co-author of two chapters – on ‘Racism, ethnicity, crime and criminal justice’ and ‘Policing & the Police’ – in the Oxford Handbook of Criminology (2002). He is currently writing up an ESRC funded study of ‘Transatlantic police cooperation’.
Posts held
2003- Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, School of Law, King’s College, London University.
2003-04 Visiting Professor, University of the West Indies, Sir Arthur Lewis Institute for Social and Economic Studies (SALISES), Cave Hill, Barbados, West Indies.
2001-03 Reader in Criminology and Criminal Justice, School of Law, King’s College London University
1999-01 Lecturer in Law, School of Law, King’s College London University.
1996-99 Lecturer in Criminology, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge.
1995-96 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, New York.
1993-95 Senior Research Officer, Home Office Research and Planning Unit, London
2001-2 Research Officer, Home Office Research and Planning Unit, London
1988-91 Research Consultant, Home Office Research and Planning Unit, London.
1988-9 Researcher (part-time) Age Concern Institute of Gerontology,
King's College, London.
1986-88 Part-time jobs including wine shop sales assistant, hospital domestic, cleaner, van driver, maths tutor and telesales.
1985-86 Teacher of English as a Foreign Language, Hantoub Boys Secondary School, Wad Medani, Sudan.
2003-04 Visiting Professor, University of the West Indies, Sir Arthur Lewis Institute for Social and Economic Studies (SALISES), Cave Hill, Barbados, West Indies.
2001-03 Reader in Criminology and Criminal Justice, School of Law, King’s College London University
1999-01 Lecturer in Law, School of Law, King’s College London University.
1996-99 Lecturer in Criminology, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge.
1995-96 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, New York.
1993-95 Senior Research Officer, Home Office Research and Planning Unit, London
2001-2 Research Officer, Home Office Research and Planning Unit, London
1988-91 Research Consultant, Home Office Research and Planning Unit, London.
1988-9 Researcher (part-time) Age Concern Institute of Gerontology,
King's College, London.
1986-88 Part-time jobs including wine shop sales assistant, hospital domestic, cleaner, van driver, maths tutor and telesales.
1985-86 Teacher of English as a Foreign Language, Hantoub Boys Secondary School, Wad Medani, Sudan.
Education and qualifications
1986-94 PhD Criminology. London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Sociology.
1982-85 BA (Hons.) Psychology. 2:1, Manchester Metropolitan University.
1982-85 BA (Hons.) Psychology. 2:1, Manchester Metropolitan University.
Books and Reports
Policing, community and the rule of law. Oxford: Hart (forthcoming, 2007) (edited collection with Jeffrey Fagan)
Human Rights and Policing. Geneva: United Nations Research Institute for Social Development. (UNRISD) (With Coretta Phillips, Alex Campbell, and Maria Docking) (2004)
Self-Reported Juvenile Delinquency in England and Wales, The Netherlands and Spain. Helsinki: HEUNI (with Rosemary Barberet, Josine Junger-Tas, Cristina Rechea-Alberola and Andrew Zurawan) (2004)
Racism, crime and justice. London: Longman Criminology Series (with Coretta Phillips) (2002)
Violent Racism: victimisation policing and social context. Clarendon Studies in Criminology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (1998) Revised edition (paperback) with new preface (1999). (see reviews in Howard Journal, British Journal of Criminology, Journal of Forensic Psychiatry, Policing and Society, International Journal of the Sociology of Law, Criminal Justice)
Young People and Crime Home Office Research Study. No. 145. London: Home Office (with John Graham) (1995).
The Multi-Agency Approach in Practice: the North Plaistow Racial Harassment Project Home Office RPU Paper No. 64. London: Home Office. (with William Saulsbury)(1991)
Elderly People from Ethnic Minorities: A Report on Four Innovative Projects. London: Age Concern Institute of Gerontology (King’s College, London). (1990)
Human Rights and Policing. Geneva: United Nations Research Institute for Social Development. (UNRISD) (With Coretta Phillips, Alex Campbell, and Maria Docking) (2004)
Self-Reported Juvenile Delinquency in England and Wales, The Netherlands and Spain. Helsinki: HEUNI (with Rosemary Barberet, Josine Junger-Tas, Cristina Rechea-Alberola and Andrew Zurawan) (2004)
Racism, crime and justice. London: Longman Criminology Series (with Coretta Phillips) (2002)
Violent Racism: victimisation policing and social context. Clarendon Studies in Criminology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (1998) Revised edition (paperback) with new preface (1999). (see reviews in Howard Journal, British Journal of Criminology, Journal of Forensic Psychiatry, Policing and Society, International Journal of the Sociology of Law, Criminal Justice)
Young People and Crime Home Office Research Study. No. 145. London: Home Office (with John Graham) (1995).
The Multi-Agency Approach in Practice: the North Plaistow Racial Harassment Project Home Office RPU Paper No. 64. London: Home Office. (with William Saulsbury)(1991)
Elderly People from Ethnic Minorities: A Report on Four Innovative Projects. London: Age Concern Institute of Gerontology (King’s College, London). (1990)
Journal articles
‘Policing migration: a framework for investigating the regulation of mobility. Policing and Society, (Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 195-212(18) 2004). (with Leanne Weber)
‘Racism, ethnicity and criminology: developing minority perspectives’, British Journal of Criminology, (Vol. 43, No.2 Spring 2003, pp269-90 (with Coretta Phillips).
‘The rise and fall of New York murder’, British Journal of Criminology. (Vol. 39, No. 4, Autumn 1999) (winner of the Radzinowicz Memorial Prize Awarded by the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies (ISTD) for the best article in the BJC)
‘Structuration, human development and desistance from crime’, British Journal of Criminology. Vol. 39, No.2 Spring 1999. (with Stephen Farall) (reprinted in the Dartmouth International Library of Criminology, Criminal Justice and Penology)
‘Cracking down on crime in New York City’. Criminal Justice Matters. No. 25, Autumn. (1996)
‘Racial Harassment and the Process of Victimisation: Conceptual and Methodological Implications for the Local Crime Survey’. British Journal of Criminology Vol. 33 No. 1 (1993)
‘Ethnic minority elderly people: helping the community to care’. New Community Vol. 17 No 4. July (1991) pp. 645-652.
‘Conceptual and Methodological Problems in Measuring ‘Race’ Differences In Delinquency’ British Journal of Criminology. Vol. 30 No. 3 Autumn (1990). Reprinted in Barbara Hudson (ed.). ‘Race and criminal justice’ Dartmouth International Library of Criminology, Criminal Justice and Penology.)
‘Racism, ethnicity and criminology: developing minority perspectives’, British Journal of Criminology, (Vol. 43, No.2 Spring 2003, pp269-90 (with Coretta Phillips).
‘The rise and fall of New York murder’, British Journal of Criminology. (Vol. 39, No. 4, Autumn 1999) (winner of the Radzinowicz Memorial Prize Awarded by the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies (ISTD) for the best article in the BJC)
‘Structuration, human development and desistance from crime’, British Journal of Criminology. Vol. 39, No.2 Spring 1999. (with Stephen Farall) (reprinted in the Dartmouth International Library of Criminology, Criminal Justice and Penology)
‘Cracking down on crime in New York City’. Criminal Justice Matters. No. 25, Autumn. (1996)
‘Racial Harassment and the Process of Victimisation: Conceptual and Methodological Implications for the Local Crime Survey’. British Journal of Criminology Vol. 33 No. 1 (1993)
‘Ethnic minority elderly people: helping the community to care’. New Community Vol. 17 No 4. July (1991) pp. 645-652.
‘Conceptual and Methodological Problems in Measuring ‘Race’ Differences In Delinquency’ British Journal of Criminology. Vol. 30 No. 3 Autumn (1990). Reprinted in Barbara Hudson (ed.). ‘Race and criminal justice’ Dartmouth International Library of Criminology, Criminal Justice and Penology.)
Book chapters
‘Ethnicities, racism, crime and criminal justice’ in M. Maguire, et al The Oxford Handbook of Criminology Oxford: OUP (4th ed.) (forthcoming with Coretta Phillips. (2006)
‘Policing and National Security’ in Bowling, B. and Fagan, J. Policing, community and the rule of law. Oxford: Hart (forthcoming, 2007)
‘Human Rights & Policing’ in Bangura, Y. and Stavenhagen, R. Racism and Public Policy Palgrave Press, with C. Phillips, A. Campbell & M. Docking. (2005)
‘Policing ethnic minority communities’ in T. Newburn. The Handbook of Policing. Cullompton, Devon: Willan (pp528-555) with Coretta Phillips (2003)
‘Policing and the Police’ in M. Maguire, R. Morgan and R. Reiner The Oxford Handbook of Criminology (3rd ed). Oxford: OUP (pp980-1033). with Janet Foster. (2002)
‘Racism, ethnicity, crime and criminal justice’ in M. Maguire, et al The Oxford Handbook of Criminology Oxford: OUP (3rd ed.)(pp579-619) with Coretta Phillips. (2002)
‘Racist victimisation in England & Wales’. Hawkins, D. (ed.) In Violent Crimes: The Nexus of Race, Class and Ethnicity Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (with Coretta Phillips) (2002).
‘Policing migration in the new world disorder’ in Scraton, P. (2002) ‘Beyond September 11th: An Anthology of Dissent. London: Pluto (with Leanne Weber).
‘Violent racism in Britain 1958-1981’ in P. Panayi (ed.) Racial violence in Britain (2nd edn.) London: Leicester University Press/Pinter (1996).
‘Self-reported offending in England and Wales: methodology and preliminary findings’. in J. Junger-Tas, G. Terlow and M. Klein The International Self-Reported Delinquency Survey. The Hague, The Netherlands: Kluwer (with John Graham and Alex Ross) (1994)
‘A Local Response to Racial Harassment’, in T. Bjorgø and R. Witte, Racist Violence in Europe. London: Macmillan. (with William Saulsbury) (1993) (translated into Norwegian, Dutch and German.)
‘Racial Harassment in East London’ in M. S. Hamm (ed.) Hate Crime: International Perspectives on Causes and Control. Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences/Anderson Publications (1993).
‘Policing and National Security’ in Bowling, B. and Fagan, J. Policing, community and the rule of law. Oxford: Hart (forthcoming, 2007)
‘Human Rights & Policing’ in Bangura, Y. and Stavenhagen, R. Racism and Public Policy Palgrave Press, with C. Phillips, A. Campbell & M. Docking. (2005)
‘Policing ethnic minority communities’ in T. Newburn. The Handbook of Policing. Cullompton, Devon: Willan (pp528-555) with Coretta Phillips (2003)
‘Policing and the Police’ in M. Maguire, R. Morgan and R. Reiner The Oxford Handbook of Criminology (3rd ed). Oxford: OUP (pp980-1033). with Janet Foster. (2002)
‘Racism, ethnicity, crime and criminal justice’ in M. Maguire, et al The Oxford Handbook of Criminology Oxford: OUP (3rd ed.)(pp579-619) with Coretta Phillips. (2002)
‘Racist victimisation in England & Wales’. Hawkins, D. (ed.) In Violent Crimes: The Nexus of Race, Class and Ethnicity Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (with Coretta Phillips) (2002).
‘Policing migration in the new world disorder’ in Scraton, P. (2002) ‘Beyond September 11th: An Anthology of Dissent. London: Pluto (with Leanne Weber).
‘Violent racism in Britain 1958-1981’ in P. Panayi (ed.) Racial violence in Britain (2nd edn.) London: Leicester University Press/Pinter (1996).
‘Self-reported offending in England and Wales: methodology and preliminary findings’. in J. Junger-Tas, G. Terlow and M. Klein The International Self-Reported Delinquency Survey. The Hague, The Netherlands: Kluwer (with John Graham and Alex Ross) (1994)
‘A Local Response to Racial Harassment’, in T. Bjorgø and R. Witte, Racist Violence in Europe. London: Macmillan. (with William Saulsbury) (1993) (translated into Norwegian, Dutch and German.)
‘Racial Harassment in East London’ in M. S. Hamm (ed.) Hate Crime: International Perspectives on Causes and Control. Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences/Anderson Publications (1993).
Funded Research
2003-5 ‘Transatlantic police cooperation’. Economic and Social Research Council, Grant No. RES-000-22-0102
1998-99 European Commission (DG XXII) funded research on youth crime under the Youth For Europe initiative. (with Rosemary Barberet, Josine Junger-Tas, Cristina Rechea-Alberola.
1998-99 European Commission (DG XXII) funded research on youth crime under the Youth For Europe initiative. (with Rosemary Barberet, Josine Junger-Tas, Cristina Rechea-Alberola.
Consultancy & advice
2004 ‘Caribbean Security Senior Command Course’ (Chaired high level group of police and military officers to develop a course delivered in 2004- date) (Foreign & Commonwealth Office, British High Commission, Bridgetown, West Indies.)
2004 Review of Statistics on ‘Race’ and the Criminal Justice System (Home Office Race Unit and Institute for Criminal Policy Research, KCL)
2003 ‘Racism in the Prison Service, a review of the research evidence’ (Prison Service, London)
2003 ‘The experiences of minority ethnic communities in the criminal justice system’ (Home Office, London)
2002 ‘Discrimination in stop and search’. Expert evidence produced for Liberty and the Commission for Racial Equality
2001 Human Rights and Policing: eliminating discrimination, intolerance and the abuse of power from policework. Geneva: UN Research Institute for Social Development. www.unrisd.org
2000 ‘Southwark Youth Involvement Study’, London Borough of Southwark/NACRO.
1999 Developing a professional judgement framework (Metropolitan Police Service client: Assistant Commissioner Denis O'Connor);
1999 Developing Critical Incident Training (Metropolitan Police, client: Commander Cullen, head of Hendon Training School
1999 ‘Best Value Review’ of Complaints and Discipline Process (Metropolitan Police, client: Commander Hayman, head of Met Police C&D.)
1998 Developing an anti-racist policing strategy (Metropolitan Police Service client: Assistant Commissioner Denis O'Connor);
2004 Review of Statistics on ‘Race’ and the Criminal Justice System (Home Office Race Unit and Institute for Criminal Policy Research, KCL)
2003 ‘Racism in the Prison Service, a review of the research evidence’ (Prison Service, London)
2003 ‘The experiences of minority ethnic communities in the criminal justice system’ (Home Office, London)
2002 ‘Discrimination in stop and search’. Expert evidence produced for Liberty and the Commission for Racial Equality
2001 Human Rights and Policing: eliminating discrimination, intolerance and the abuse of power from policework. Geneva: UN Research Institute for Social Development. www.unrisd.org
2000 ‘Southwark Youth Involvement Study’, London Borough of Southwark/NACRO.
1999 Developing a professional judgement framework (Metropolitan Police Service client: Assistant Commissioner Denis O'Connor);
1999 Developing Critical Incident Training (Metropolitan Police, client: Commander Cullen, head of Hendon Training School
1999 ‘Best Value Review’ of Complaints and Discipline Process (Metropolitan Police, client: Commander Hayman, head of Met Police C&D.)
1998 Developing an anti-racist policing strategy (Metropolitan Police Service client: Assistant Commissioner Denis O'Connor);
Submissions to official inquiries
2001 House of Lords European Union Sub-Committee (with Maleiha Malik and Robert Wintemute)
2001 Mayor of London’s Community Safety Commission
2001 UN World Conference on Racism and Xenophobia, Durban, South Africa
1999 Patten Commission (oral evidence)
1999 Stephen Lawrence Inquiry (written evidence)
2001 Mayor of London’s Community Safety Commission
2001 UN World Conference on Racism and Xenophobia, Durban, South Africa
1999 Patten Commission (oral evidence)
1999 Stephen Lawrence Inquiry (written evidence)
Service
2005-date Stop & Search Community Challenge Panel, Home Secretary’s Stop & Search Action Team
2004-date Director of Criminological Studies, King’s College London.
2004-date Director, MA Criminology and Criminal Justice, King’s College London.
2004-date Chair, University of London Central Research Fund, Panel C (social sciences).
2004-date Editorial Board, King’s College Law Journal
2003-date Trustee, Board of Directors, Institute for Criminal Policy Research
2002-3 Director of Postgraduate Research, King’s College London
2001-date Editorial Board, Critical Criminology
2001-date Editorial Board, Journal of Ethnicity & Criminal Justice
2000-3 British Society of Criminology: National Executive Committee; Charity Trustee, Board of Directors, Chair (Southern Branch).
1999-date Centre for Crime & Justice Studies Research Advisory Committee
1999-date Panel Member, University of London, Central Research Fund Committee, Panel C (social sciences).
1998-date Editorial board, British Journal of Criminology
2001-date Editorial board, Policing and Society.
2001-3 Book review editor, Policing and Society.
2001-2 ‘Prison in the 21st Century’, Core Group, International Centre
for Prison Studies, King's College, London
1998-2001 Independent Advisory Group (IAG), Metropolitan Police Racial &Violent Crime Task Force.
1996-9 Cambridge University Cropwood Fellowship, Selection Committee
1995 British Society of Criminology, co-chair Southern Branch.
1992-5 British Society of Criminology council member.
1987-9 British Criminology Conference, organising committee.
1986-7 Voluntary Associate, Inner London Probation Service.
1986-9 Lay Visitor to Police Stations, South Westminster.
2004-date Director of Criminological Studies, King’s College London.
2004-date Director, MA Criminology and Criminal Justice, King’s College London.
2004-date Chair, University of London Central Research Fund, Panel C (social sciences).
2004-date Editorial Board, King’s College Law Journal
2003-date Trustee, Board of Directors, Institute for Criminal Policy Research
2002-3 Director of Postgraduate Research, King’s College London
2001-date Editorial Board, Critical Criminology
2001-date Editorial Board, Journal of Ethnicity & Criminal Justice
2000-3 British Society of Criminology: National Executive Committee; Charity Trustee, Board of Directors, Chair (Southern Branch).
1999-date Centre for Crime & Justice Studies Research Advisory Committee
1999-date Panel Member, University of London, Central Research Fund Committee, Panel C (social sciences).
1998-date Editorial board, British Journal of Criminology
2001-date Editorial board, Policing and Society.
2001-3 Book review editor, Policing and Society.
2001-2 ‘Prison in the 21st Century’, Core Group, International Centre
for Prison Studies, King's College, London
1998-2001 Independent Advisory Group (IAG), Metropolitan Police Racial &Violent Crime Task Force.
1996-9 Cambridge University Cropwood Fellowship, Selection Committee
1995 British Society of Criminology, co-chair Southern Branch.
1992-5 British Society of Criminology council member.
1987-9 British Criminology Conference, organising committee.
1986-7 Voluntary Associate, Inner London Probation Service.
1986-9 Lay Visitor to Police Stations, South Westminster.
Conferences/seminars/guest lectures
2006 Preventing Gun Crime. Black Police Association Young Leaders Programme, Harringay Civic Centre, London
Can democracy survive globalisation? ‘Question time’ discussion at Pimlico Secondary School, London.
Quantity and quality in police research: making a case for case studies. Symposium on Research Methods, Benchmarking and the Home Office, University of Cambridge.
Globalisation, crime and policing. Chevening Seminar, National Police Training, Bramshill
‘Security vs. sovereignty: the development of transnational policing in the contemporary Caribbean’, Sir Arthur Lewis Institute for Social & Economic Studies, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados
Policing Paradise: transnational security cooperation in the Caribbean region, 4th International Caribbean Criminology Conference, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad.
2005 Bobby, Bond or Babylon: transnational police cooperation in the contemporary Caribbean? Professorial Inaugural Lecture, King’s College London.
Demystifying police statistics, Metropolitan Police Authority, London.
Protecting paradise? American Society of Criminology Annual Meetings, Toronto, Canada.
Transatlantic police cooperation: the complex case of Caribbean links, British Society of Criminology Conference, University of Leeds
Racism, ethnicity & criminology: a roundtable discussion, Roundtable co-chair and contributor, British Society of Criminology Conference, University of Leeds
The transnational culture of policing, International Strategic Leadership Programme, The Police Staff College, Bramshill.
Transnational law enforcement cooperation, International Strategic Leadership Programme, The Police Staff College, Bramshill.
Transnational law enforcement cooperation, Queen’s University Belfast
The globalisation of policing, Masters in Applied Criminology, University of Cambridge
Xenophobia and discrimination against minorities, expert seminar International Civil Service College, Vienna.
Policing in the Globalised 21st century, Distinguished lecture series commemorating the 165th Anniversary of the Royal Bahamas Police Force, Gerald Bartlett Police Headquarters, Freeport, Grand Bahama and the National Centre for the Performing Arts, Nassau Bahamas (March)
Youth Crime and Justice, Year 11 PSE Class, Pimlico School, London Borough of Westminster
Race Hate Crime, Widening Participation Lecture, Splash programme, St. Saviours & St Olaves, London Borough of Southwark.
2004 Law enforcement cooperation in the Caribbean region, Jamaica Constabulary Force Staff College Seminar Series, Twickenham Park, Jamaica.
Transatlantic law enforcement, American Society of Criminology Meetings, Nashville, TN. (November)
2003 Transatlantic policing: a study of Caribbean law enforcement linkages, Sir Arthur Lewis Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the West Indies, (Cave Hill, Barbados).
Transnational police cooperation: strategic issues, Caribbean Staff Officers Course, Association of Caribbean Commissioners of Police, Barbados.
Transnational police co-operation: issues for international commanders, International Commanders Programme, Police Staff College, Bramshill
Racism, ethnicity, crime and criminology: towards a minority perspective? British Society of Criminology and Mannheim Centre, LSE (with Coretta Phillips)
Transnational police co-operation: the case of Anglo-Caribbean linkages, University of Durham, Department of Sociology and Social Policy.
‘Responding to racisms in criminal justice: undoing the criminalisation of black people in England’. University of Hertfordshire/London Probation Headquarters.
Transnational police co-operation, University of Leicester, School of Law.
2002 ‘Transnational police cooperation: global policing, local accountability’, University of Cambridge.
‘Policing migration: internal, external and transnational controls’. British Criminology Conference, University of Keele. (with Leanne Weber)
‘Responding to violent racism: punishment, justice and community safety’. King’s College London Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, Conference on ‘Hate Crime’.
‘Racism, violence and criminal justice’ ESRC Research Seminar on Racist Violence, University of Kent at Canterbury.
‘Researching violent racism: a victimological perspective’ Conference on Right-Wing Extremism: Methodological Issues and New Approaches, Swiss National Science Foundation, Berne, Switzerland
‘Are black kids to blame for street crime?’ 1st Arlene Mundle Debate, The Fridge, Brixton, London.
‘Responding to racisms in criminal justice: undoing the criminalisation of black people in England’. Perrie Lecture, The Prison Service College, Rugby.
‘More bobbies on the global beat?: transnational policing and local police accountability’, Modernising Criminal Justice, John Jay College of Criminal Justice/Metropolitan Police, London.
2001 ‘Human Rights and Policing’. United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, Conference, World Conference Against Racism, Durban South Africa.
‘Transatlantic police cooperation’, 2nd International Conference on Crime and Criminal Justice in the Caribbean, Mona, Jamaica.
‘Racism, crime and justice’, Liverpool John Moore’s University.
‘Race and crime’, Strategic Command Course, Bramshill Police Staff College.
‘Transnational police cooperation’, University of Cambridge.
‘Globalisation and policing’ and ‘Black perspectives in criminology’, American Society of Criminology Meetings, Atlanta. GA.
2000 ‘Understanding and responding to rural racism’. Making Community Safety Happen; Suffolk Safer Community Partnership.
New Labour, Racism, Crime and Justice, British Society of Criminology Southern Branch, London.
Supporting victims of racist crime. Victim Support Lambeth
Crime Fact/Crime Fiction, Middlesex University.
Co-chair: ‘Racism, ethnicity and criminology’, British Criminology Conference, Leicester.
Policing, and identities of resistance, St Mary’s College, Twickenham.
Confidence, accountability and justifying ‘dirty hands’. Franco-British Council Seminar ‘Policing in Britain and France: restoring confidence locally and nationally, London.
Panel chair and presenter, Hate Crime in International Context, Metropolis International Conference, Vancouver, BC.
‘Desisting from crime in theory and practice’. American Society of Criminology Meetings, San Francisco, Calif.
1999 'Anti-racist policing: rhetoric or reality?' Leeds University Centre for Criminal Justice Studies.
‘The Stephen Lawrence Inquiry and Beyond’, British Society of Criminology Southern Branch, London
‘Anti-Racist Policing’ Metropolitan Police Training College, Hendon, London
‘Zero Tolerance’, Operational Commanders Programme, Police Staff College, Bramshill, Hampshire.
Towards Anti-Discriminatory Practice, ‘The Crooked Blue Line’ conference on police deviance and control, London School of Economics.
New Labour, Crime and Justice’ University of Keele
‘Racism, crime and justice’, University of Cambridge.
Racist offenders. Opening speech and Chair, Day conference on The perpetrators of racist violence, King’s College London, Centre for Crime and Justice Studies.
1998 ‘Anti-Racist Crime Investigation’, Metropolitan Police Conference on Anti-Racist Policing
‘Zero tolerance policing’ Police Research Group/University Cambridge Seminar on Crime Reduction, Fitzwilliam College.
‘Violent Racism’ Oxford University Centre for Criminological Research, All Soul’s College, Oxford.
‘Zero Tolerance in Theory and Practice’ Strategic Command Course and Operational Commanders Programme, Bramshill Police Staff College.
‘Responding to Racial Harassment and Attacks’ Victim Support, Cambridge.
1997 University of Cambridge; University of Edinburgh; British Criminology Conference, Queen’s University Belfast; Bramshill Police Staff College; London School of Economics.
1996 NACRO Crime Prevention Co-ordinators conference, Manchester; British Society of Criminology, London; NACRO seminar on "Policing Modern Britain - What Room for Zero Tolerance?" American Society of Criminology Meetings, Chicago; Home Office Research and Statistics Directorate.
1995 Conference on Criminal Justice Education, John Jay College, NY. American Society of Criminology Meetings, Boston.
1994 British Society of Criminology, London; Institute for the Study of Behavioural Development annual meetings, University of Amsterdam; Roehampton Institute, London.
1993 Norwegian Institute for Foreign Affairs, Oslo; Council of Europe, Berlin; British Criminology Conference, Cardiff; American Society of Criminology, Phoenix; Goethe Institute, London; Bundeskriminalamt, Wiesbaden, Germany; Criminal Justice Associates, Kings College, London.
1992 University of Kent; University of Amsterdam; Leicester University.
1991 Birkbeck College, London University; British Criminology Conference, York; American Society of Criminology, San Francisco.
1990 Realist Criminology Conference, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia; Canadian Law & Society Meetings, Victoria, British Columbia.
Can democracy survive globalisation? ‘Question time’ discussion at Pimlico Secondary School, London.
Quantity and quality in police research: making a case for case studies. Symposium on Research Methods, Benchmarking and the Home Office, University of Cambridge.
Globalisation, crime and policing. Chevening Seminar, National Police Training, Bramshill
‘Security vs. sovereignty: the development of transnational policing in the contemporary Caribbean’, Sir Arthur Lewis Institute for Social & Economic Studies, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados
Policing Paradise: transnational security cooperation in the Caribbean region, 4th International Caribbean Criminology Conference, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad.
2005 Bobby, Bond or Babylon: transnational police cooperation in the contemporary Caribbean? Professorial Inaugural Lecture, King’s College London.
Demystifying police statistics, Metropolitan Police Authority, London.
Protecting paradise? American Society of Criminology Annual Meetings, Toronto, Canada.
Transatlantic police cooperation: the complex case of Caribbean links, British Society of Criminology Conference, University of Leeds
Racism, ethnicity & criminology: a roundtable discussion, Roundtable co-chair and contributor, British Society of Criminology Conference, University of Leeds
The transnational culture of policing, International Strategic Leadership Programme, The Police Staff College, Bramshill.
Transnational law enforcement cooperation, International Strategic Leadership Programme, The Police Staff College, Bramshill.
Transnational law enforcement cooperation, Queen’s University Belfast
The globalisation of policing, Masters in Applied Criminology, University of Cambridge
Xenophobia and discrimination against minorities, expert seminar International Civil Service College, Vienna.
Policing in the Globalised 21st century, Distinguished lecture series commemorating the 165th Anniversary of the Royal Bahamas Police Force, Gerald Bartlett Police Headquarters, Freeport, Grand Bahama and the National Centre for the Performing Arts, Nassau Bahamas (March)
Youth Crime and Justice, Year 11 PSE Class, Pimlico School, London Borough of Westminster
Race Hate Crime, Widening Participation Lecture, Splash programme, St. Saviours & St Olaves, London Borough of Southwark.
2004 Law enforcement cooperation in the Caribbean region, Jamaica Constabulary Force Staff College Seminar Series, Twickenham Park, Jamaica.
Transatlantic law enforcement, American Society of Criminology Meetings, Nashville, TN. (November)
2003 Transatlantic policing: a study of Caribbean law enforcement linkages, Sir Arthur Lewis Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the West Indies, (Cave Hill, Barbados).
Transnational police cooperation: strategic issues, Caribbean Staff Officers Course, Association of Caribbean Commissioners of Police, Barbados.
Transnational police co-operation: issues for international commanders, International Commanders Programme, Police Staff College, Bramshill
Racism, ethnicity, crime and criminology: towards a minority perspective? British Society of Criminology and Mannheim Centre, LSE (with Coretta Phillips)
Transnational police co-operation: the case of Anglo-Caribbean linkages, University of Durham, Department of Sociology and Social Policy.
‘Responding to racisms in criminal justice: undoing the criminalisation of black people in England’. University of Hertfordshire/London Probation Headquarters.
Transnational police co-operation, University of Leicester, School of Law.
2002 ‘Transnational police cooperation: global policing, local accountability’, University of Cambridge.
‘Policing migration: internal, external and transnational controls’. British Criminology Conference, University of Keele. (with Leanne Weber)
‘Responding to violent racism: punishment, justice and community safety’. King’s College London Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, Conference on ‘Hate Crime’.
‘Racism, violence and criminal justice’ ESRC Research Seminar on Racist Violence, University of Kent at Canterbury.
‘Researching violent racism: a victimological perspective’ Conference on Right-Wing Extremism: Methodological Issues and New Approaches, Swiss National Science Foundation, Berne, Switzerland
‘Are black kids to blame for street crime?’ 1st Arlene Mundle Debate, The Fridge, Brixton, London.
‘Responding to racisms in criminal justice: undoing the criminalisation of black people in England’. Perrie Lecture, The Prison Service College, Rugby.
‘More bobbies on the global beat?: transnational policing and local police accountability’, Modernising Criminal Justice, John Jay College of Criminal Justice/Metropolitan Police, London.
2001 ‘Human Rights and Policing’. United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, Conference, World Conference Against Racism, Durban South Africa.
‘Transatlantic police cooperation’, 2nd International Conference on Crime and Criminal Justice in the Caribbean, Mona, Jamaica.
‘Racism, crime and justice’, Liverpool John Moore’s University.
‘Race and crime’, Strategic Command Course, Bramshill Police Staff College.
‘Transnational police cooperation’, University of Cambridge.
‘Globalisation and policing’ and ‘Black perspectives in criminology’, American Society of Criminology Meetings, Atlanta. GA.
2000 ‘Understanding and responding to rural racism’. Making Community Safety Happen; Suffolk Safer Community Partnership.
New Labour, Racism, Crime and Justice, British Society of Criminology Southern Branch, London.
Supporting victims of racist crime. Victim Support Lambeth
Crime Fact/Crime Fiction, Middlesex University.
Co-chair: ‘Racism, ethnicity and criminology’, British Criminology Conference, Leicester.
Policing, and identities of resistance, St Mary’s College, Twickenham.
Confidence, accountability and justifying ‘dirty hands’. Franco-British Council Seminar ‘Policing in Britain and France: restoring confidence locally and nationally, London.
Panel chair and presenter, Hate Crime in International Context, Metropolis International Conference, Vancouver, BC.
‘Desisting from crime in theory and practice’. American Society of Criminology Meetings, San Francisco, Calif.
1999 'Anti-racist policing: rhetoric or reality?' Leeds University Centre for Criminal Justice Studies.
‘The Stephen Lawrence Inquiry and Beyond’, British Society of Criminology Southern Branch, London
‘Anti-Racist Policing’ Metropolitan Police Training College, Hendon, London
‘Zero Tolerance’, Operational Commanders Programme, Police Staff College, Bramshill, Hampshire.
Towards Anti-Discriminatory Practice, ‘The Crooked Blue Line’ conference on police deviance and control, London School of Economics.
New Labour, Crime and Justice’ University of Keele
‘Racism, crime and justice’, University of Cambridge.
Racist offenders. Opening speech and Chair, Day conference on The perpetrators of racist violence, King’s College London, Centre for Crime and Justice Studies.
1998 ‘Anti-Racist Crime Investigation’, Metropolitan Police Conference on Anti-Racist Policing
‘Zero tolerance policing’ Police Research Group/University Cambridge Seminar on Crime Reduction, Fitzwilliam College.
‘Violent Racism’ Oxford University Centre for Criminological Research, All Soul’s College, Oxford.
‘Zero Tolerance in Theory and Practice’ Strategic Command Course and Operational Commanders Programme, Bramshill Police Staff College.
‘Responding to Racial Harassment and Attacks’ Victim Support, Cambridge.
1997 University of Cambridge; University of Edinburgh; British Criminology Conference, Queen’s University Belfast; Bramshill Police Staff College; London School of Economics.
1996 NACRO Crime Prevention Co-ordinators conference, Manchester; British Society of Criminology, London; NACRO seminar on "Policing Modern Britain - What Room for Zero Tolerance?" American Society of Criminology Meetings, Chicago; Home Office Research and Statistics Directorate.
1995 Conference on Criminal Justice Education, John Jay College, NY. American Society of Criminology Meetings, Boston.
1994 British Society of Criminology, London; Institute for the Study of Behavioural Development annual meetings, University of Amsterdam; Roehampton Institute, London.
1993 Norwegian Institute for Foreign Affairs, Oslo; Council of Europe, Berlin; British Criminology Conference, Cardiff; American Society of Criminology, Phoenix; Goethe Institute, London; Bundeskriminalamt, Wiesbaden, Germany; Criminal Justice Associates, Kings College, London.
1992 University of Kent; University of Amsterdam; Leicester University.
1991 Birkbeck College, London University; British Criminology Conference, York; American Society of Criminology, San Francisco.
1990 Realist Criminology Conference, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia; Canadian Law & Society Meetings, Victoria, British Columbia.
Journalism
2004 Soap box ‘why I think academics should take part in public inquiries’, The Times Higher, February 13, 2004. ‘Transatlantic Policing’ Association of Caribbean Commissioners of Police, Annual Magazine.
2001-3 Appearances on BBC Radio 4 (The World Tonight, The Today Programme).
BBC1 news. Frequently quoted in the Guardian, Observer. Quoted in The Economist.
2000 ‘Does criminology cause crime’, KCL School of Law Alumni Magazine. Interviews on: ‘Policing hate’ (BBC2 Open University); GLR (London Live), BBC Radio 4 (The World Tonight, The Today Programme, File on Four) BBC1 9 o’clock news. C4 Newsnight.
1999 The Guardian 'Facing the ugly facts’ Wednesday February 17 1999, Society p 2-3 Radio 5 Live, 24 Feb Early morning news; 'Presenter's friend' (1-7pm); Sky TV, 'Forum'. Don's Diary, Cambridge Alumni Magazine, Lent Term 1999. Arresting the abuse of police power: review of the Met’s report on stop and search. ‘Diversity on Line’, December 1999.
1998 Greater London Radio, BBC News 24, BBC1 evening news.
1997 ‘Zero Tolerance’, BBC2 Close Up North; ‘Zero Tolerance’, BBC1 ThinkTank, Radio 4 lunchtime news, Greater London Radio; BBC World (Cable) , Anglia TV.
1996 CNBC, New Jersey.
2001-3 Appearances on BBC Radio 4 (The World Tonight, The Today Programme).
BBC1 news. Frequently quoted in the Guardian, Observer. Quoted in The Economist.
2000 ‘Does criminology cause crime’, KCL School of Law Alumni Magazine. Interviews on: ‘Policing hate’ (BBC2 Open University); GLR (London Live), BBC Radio 4 (The World Tonight, The Today Programme, File on Four) BBC1 9 o’clock news. C4 Newsnight.
1999 The Guardian 'Facing the ugly facts’ Wednesday February 17 1999, Society p 2-3 Radio 5 Live, 24 Feb Early morning news; 'Presenter's friend' (1-7pm); Sky TV, 'Forum'. Don's Diary, Cambridge Alumni Magazine, Lent Term 1999. Arresting the abuse of police power: review of the Met’s report on stop and search. ‘Diversity on Line’, December 1999.
1998 Greater London Radio, BBC News 24, BBC1 evening news.
1997 ‘Zero Tolerance’, BBC2 Close Up North; ‘Zero Tolerance’, BBC1 ThinkTank, Radio 4 lunchtime news, Greater London Radio; BBC World (Cable) , Anglia TV.
1996 CNBC, New Jersey.