Robert Reiner

Robert Reiner is Emeritus Professor of Criminology in the Law Department at the London School of Economics. He was President of the British Society of Criminology from 1993-6; Director of the LSE Mannheim Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice from 1995-8; and convener of the Law Department from 2001-4. He is author of: The Blue-Coated Worker, Chief Constables , Law and Order , Policing, Popular Culture and Political Economy , Crime: The Mystery of the Common-Sense Concept , and The...See more

Robert Reiner is Emeritus Professor of Criminology in the Law Department at the London School of Economics. He was President of the British Society of Criminology from 1993-6; Director of the LSE Mannheim Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice from 1995-8; and convener of the Law Department from 2001-4. He is author of: The Blue-Coated Worker, Chief Constables , Law and Order , Policing, Popular Culture and Political Economy , Crime: The Mystery of the Common-Sense Concept , and The Politics of the Police, Fifth Edition (with Ben Bowling and James Sheptycki), and Editor (with Mike Maguire and Rod Morgan) of the first five editions of The Oxford Handbook of Criminology . He has also written numerous journal articles and book chapters. He received the British Society of Criminology Outstanding Achievement Award in 2011. See less