Sociology & Criminology for a Changing World
Jeff Ferrell is an American criminologist and a leading figure in the field of Cultural Criminology. He is Professor of Sociology at Texas Christian University and Visiting Professor at the University of Kent. Ferrell’s work examines the intersections of culture, crime, and control, often through ethnographic and participatory research. He is known for immersing himself
Lucia Zedner is a British criminologist and legal scholar, Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College. Her work spans criminology, criminal law, and socio-legal studies, with a particular focus on security, punishment, policing, and the preventive turn in criminal justice. Zedner is known for her interdisciplinary
Didier Fassin is a French anthropologist and sociologist whose work bridges the boundaries between ethnography, political sociology, and the anthropology of institutions. As Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, Fassin has conducted groundbreaking fieldwork on policing, immigration enforcement, and humanitarianism.
Robert Reiner is a British criminologist and one of the most influential scholars in the sociology of policing. As Professor Emeritus of Criminology at the London School of Economics, Reiner has spent decades analyzing the political, cultural, and social dynamics that shape modern police work. His research bridges empirical studies of police culture with theoretical
Markus Dirk Dubber is a German-born legal scholar and criminologist whose work critically examines the historical and conceptual foundations of criminal law, policing, and governance. Currently a professor of law at the University of Toronto and former Director of the Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies, Dubber has made influential contributions to the study of
Jonathan Simon is an American criminologist and legal scholar known for his influential analyses of mass incarceration, governance through crime, and the transformation of penal policy in the United States. A professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, Simon has critically examined how fear of crime and security discourses have shaped political decision-making,