Colin Sumner

Colin Sumner is an investment manager and writer. He was Professor and Head of the Law School at the University of East London and for many years a Lecturer at the Institute of Criminology and a Fellow of Wolfson College at the University of Cambridge. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Universities of Barcelona, Hamburg, Berkeley, Simon Fraser, Queen's [Kingston], St. Mary's, and Dar es Salaam. His books include "Reading Ideologies" (1979), "Crime, Justice and Underdevelopment ("1982), ...See more

Colin Sumner is an investment manager and writer. He was Professor and Head of the Law School at the University of East London and for many years a Lecturer at the Institute of Criminology and a Fellow of Wolfson College at the University of Cambridge. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Universities of Barcelona, Hamburg, Berkeley, Simon Fraser, Queen's [Kingston], St. Mary's, and Dar es Salaam. His books include "Reading Ideologies" (1979), "Crime, Justice and Underdevelopment ("1982), "Censure, Politics and Criminal Justice "(1990), "The Sociology of Deviance" (1994), "Violence, Culture and Censure" (1996), and "Social Control and Political Order" (ed. with Roberto Bergalli, 1997). He also edited a book series entitled "New Directions in Criminology" and, with Piers Beirne, founded and edited the journal "Theoretical Criminology," See less