Keith Soothill

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Keith Leonard Soothill (born March 25, 1941 in Whetstone , London , † February 12, 2014 ) was a British criminologist and social researcher .

Life

Keith Soothill was born in Whetstone, North London. His father worked as a sales representative and also taught for the Workers' Educational Association . His mother had worked in a butcher's shop before they married. When Soothill was in elementary school, the family moved to Raynes Park in south London and he received a scholarship to King's College School at Wimbledon . After high school, he worked in the advertising industry, studying philosophy and psychology at the University of Exeter . There he received his degree in 1965. Soothill continued his studies and received his PhD in sociology with Terry Morris at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1971 . The title of his dissertation was The Apex project: an evaluation of an experimental employment agency for ex-prisoners . From 1974 he taught and researched at Lancaster University . Here he spent his further academic career, most recently as a professor for empirical social research , and continued his research after his retirement in 2006.

Soothill was married and had two children, a son and a daughter.

Publications (selection)

  • with Sylvia Walby: Sex crime in the news (1991, London: Routledge )
  • with Christine Henry, Kevin Kendrick: Themes and Perspectives in Nursing (1995, London: Chapman and Hall)
  • with Moira Peelo, Richard Hugman (Eds.): Concepts of Care: Developments in Health and Social Welfare (1997, London: Arnold)
  • with Brian J. Francis, Elizabeth Ackerley, Samantha Collett: Homicide in Britain: a comparative study of rates in Scotland and England and Wales. (1999, Edinburgh: Scottish Executive Central Research Unit)
  • Criminal conversations: an anthology of the work of Tony Parker. (1999, London, New York: Routledge)
  • with Nicholas Abercrombie, Alan Warde, Rosemary Deem, Sue Penna, Andrew Sayer, John Urry, Sylvia Walby: Contemporary British Society. (2000, Cambridge: Polity Press)
  • with Brian Francis, Rachel Fligelstone: Patterns of offending behavior: a new approach (2002, Home Office Research Findings, Volume 171, London: Home Office)
  • with Moira Peelo, Claire Taylor: Making Sense of Criminology (2002, Cambridge: Polity Press)
  • with Moira Peelo (Ed.): Questioning Crime and Criminology (2005, Cullompton: Willan)
  • with Paul Rogers, Mairead Dolan (Ed.): Handbook of Forensic Mental Health (2008, Cullompton: Willan)
  • with Claire Fitzpatrick, Brian Francis: Understanding Criminal Careers (2009, Cullompton: Willan)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The Apex project: an evaluation of an experimental employment agency for ex-prisoners , E-Thesis Online Service . British Library website
personal data
SURNAME Soothill, Keith
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Soothill, Keith Leonard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British criminologist and social researcher
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Whetstone , London
DATE OF DEATH 12th of February 2014