Roger Matthews (criminologist)

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Roger A. Matthews (born August 14, 1948 in London , † April 7 or April 8, 2020 ) was a British criminologist .

Life

Matthews graduated from Middlesex University , where he received a Bachelor of Arts ( Hons ) in social sciences . He holds a Masters of Arts degree in Sociology and Criminology from the University of Sussex . His promotion to Ph.D. took place in 1983 at the University of Essex with the dissertation Prostitution and social structure: Towards a materialist analysis.

From 1977 to 1990 he taught criminology at Middlesex University, first as a lecturer , then as a senior lecturer . From 1990 to 1993 he was a Senior Lecturer at the University of Leicester . He then returned to Middlesex University and taught here from 1993 to 2004, first as a reader , then as a professor of criminology. From 2004 to 2011 he was Professor of Criminology at London South Bank University . He then moved to the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research at the University of Kent , where he was from then on as a professor of criminology.

Matthews was a member of the British Society of Criminology and the American Society of Criminology . He was also a founding member of the Latin American Society on Penal Law and Criminology (ALPEC) and was on the advisory board of the journal Theoretical Criminology .

He died of SARS-CoV-2 in early April 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK .

Publications (selection)

  • with Jock Young (Ed.): Confronting Crime (1986, SAGE Publications )
  • (Ed.): Informal Justice? (1988, SAGE Publications)
  • (Ed.): Privatising Criminal Justice (1989, SAGE Publications)
  • with Jock Young (Ed.): Issues in Realist Criminology (1992, SAGE Publications)
  • with Jock Young (Ed.): Rethinking Criminology: The Realist Debate (1992, SAGE Publications)
  • with Peter Francis (Ed.): Prisons 2000: An International Perspective on the Current State and Future of Imprisonment. (1996, Macmillan Press)
  • (Ed.): Imprisonment. The International Library of Criminology, Criminal Justice and Penology (1999, Ashgate Publishing Group , ISBN 9781855218277 )
  • with John Pitts (Ed.): Crime, Disorder and Community Safety. (2001, Taylor & Francis Ltd , ISBN 9780415242318 )
  • Armed Robbery. (2002, Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN 9781903240618 )
  • with Maggie O'Neill (Ed.): Prostitution. (2003, Ashgate Publishing Group, ISBN 9780754621898 )
  • with Jock Young (Ed.): The New Politics of Crime and Punishment. (2003, Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN 9781903240915 )
  • with Helen Easton, Daniel Briggs, Ken Pease: Assessing The Use and Impact of Anti-Social Behavior Orders. (2007, Policy Press, Bristol, ISBN 9781847420572 )
  • Prostitution, Politics & Policy. (2008, Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN 9780415459174 )
  • Doing Time: An Introduction to the Sociology of Imprisonment. (2009, Palgrave Macmillan , Basingstoke, ISBN 9780230235526 )
  • Realist Criminology. (2014, Palgrave Macmillan, London, ISBN 978-1-137-44571-1 )
  • with Helen Easton, Lisa Young, Julie Bindel, Lisa Reynolds: Exiting Prostitution: A Study on Female Desistance. (2014, Palgrave Macmillan, London, ISBN 978-1-137-28942-1 )
  • What is to Be Done About Crime and Punishment? (2016, Palgrave Macmillan, London, ISBN 978-1-137-57228-8 )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Julie Bindel: Roger Matthews obituary , theguardian.com , accessed April 24, 2020
  2. ↑ a b Obituary accessed on April 20, 2020
  3. ^ Prostitution and social structure: Towards a materialist analysis , E-Thesis Online Service . British Library website
personal data
SURNAME Matthews, Roger
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Matthews, Roger A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British criminologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH April 7, 2020 or April 8, 2020