How People Judge Policing

by Waddington, P A J; Wright, Martin; Williams, Kate; Newburn, Tim

• ISBN13: 9780198718888
• ISBN10: 0198718888
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2017-04-23
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

P A J Waddington, Professor Emeritus, University of Wolverhampton; Visiting Professor, London School of Economics,Martin Wright, Academic Director, Global University Systems,Kate Williams, Senior Lecturer in Criminology,University of Wolverhampton,Tim Newburn, Head of Social Policy and Director of the Mannheim Centre for Criminology, London School of Economics

P A J Waddington is Professor of Social Policy and Honorary Director of the Central Institute for the Study of Public Protection at the University of Wolverhampton. He has over 30 years of academic research and is the initiator of the BSc (Hons) Policing degree. He began his working life as a police officer in Birmingham, before embarking on an academic career where he continued his interest in policing and has been a prominent author of nine books and numerous articles. This latest book is based on research commissioned by the Economic and Social Research Council.

Dr Martin Wright, a retired police inspector, is the Director of the Central Institute for the Study of Public Protection and Head of Department of Uniformed Services at the University of Wolverhampton. He is the lead for the BSc Policing, Fire & Rescue and Armed Forces degrees.

Tim Newburn is Professor of Criminology and Social Policy at the 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 Private Security and Public Policing with Trevor Jones (Oxford University press, 1998).

Dr Kate Williams is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Wolverhampton. She teaches in the areas of introductory criminology and sex work - one of her specialist research areas - and, together with Professor Kate Moss and Pram Singh, she is involved with an EU funded study into women rough sleepers who suffer violence. She is also currently the Executive Secretary of the British Society of Criminology.