Scholar of social harm, perverse incentives and unintended consequences
Scholar of social harm, perverse incentives and unintended consequences
I am passionate about effective crime reduction at scale. Check out my article in Works in Progress to find out how we can reduce almost any crime until it is vanishingly rare.
I am an Associate Professor in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Lincoln where I teach Becoming a Criminologist, International Human Rights, Law Enforcement and Human Rights, and Crime and the Media. My research explores the contributions of private enterprise and civil society towards crime prevention, social order, public health, and the environment.
I have a PhD from King's College London and an M.Phil. in Political Theory from the University of Oxford. I was a Fellow at the NYU School of Law from 2016 to 2019. I have published research, among other places, in the American Journal of Political Science, The British Journal of Criminology, and Polity.
My work benefits from interdisciplinary collaboration, especially within the framework of Philosophy, Politics and Economics. My co-authors include Nancy Cartwright, Carlo Cordasco, Charles Delmotte, Aris Trantidis, Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay and Rachela Colosi.
Neoliberal Social Justice, my defence of commercial society on progressive grounds, is published by Edward Elgar. Read chapter one here. Watch my LSE lecture introducing the book's core thesis here.
‘A landmark in our understanding of the relationship between ethical theories and practical politics’ - Michael C. Munger, Duke University