Professor Tim Newburn, Professor of Criminology and Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science, has been awarded the Outstanding Achievement Award 2024 by the British Society of Criminology.
Professor Newburn’s research has spanned a wide range of areas including policing and security, restorative justice, youth offending, drugs and alcohol, comparative policy making and urban violence. He led on Reading the Riots, the prize-winning research with The Guardian on the 2011 disorder, and, with Professors David Downes and Paul Rock, is currently working on the immense Official History of Criminal Justice.
Professor Newburn is author, co-author or co-editor of 49 books, 56 articles, 18 official reports and 72 chapters in books introducing pioneering textbooks and handbooks including the popular Criminology (3rd edition, Routledge, 2017) and Criminology: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2018).
Professor Newburn was the founding editor of the British Society of Criminology’s journal Criminology & Criminal Justice and is General Editor of Routledge’s Key Ideas in Criminology series, and a series editor of Key Thinkers in Criminology. He was President of the British Society of Criminology from 2005-2008.
The Outstanding Achievement Award is decided following nominations from the British Society of Criminology membership.
Dr. Leonidas Cheliotis, Associate Professor and Director of the Mannheim Centre for Criminology, said: “All of us at the Mannheim Centre extend our heartfelt congratulations to Tim on being awarded the British Society of Criminology’s Outstanding Achievement Award – an amply deserved recognition of his consistently impressive contributions to the discipline over several decades. Most obviously, Tim has produced an extraordinary amount of stellar scholarly works, and on a broad range of topics at that. At the same time, he has been a tireless and exceptionally effective institution builder, both at the Mannheim Centre and beyond, not least the BSC itself. Just as importantly, he has always been a dedicated and inspiring teacher and mentor to countless students. And all this while being a wonderful and generous colleague. Hats off to Tim!”
President of the BSC Professor Pamela Davies, said: “Tim Newburn has long been, continues to and always will be, an inspiration to the criminological community around the globe.”
The British Society of Criminology’s Outstanding Achievement Award will be marked by an event during the Society’s annual conference hosted in conjunction with the University of Strathclyde in July.
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