About

Richard Sparks is Professor of Criminology at the University of Edinburgh. He was formerly Professor of Criminology at Keele University and in his early career also worked at the Open University and the University of Cambridge. His main research interests lie in the sociology of punishment (especially imprisonment); penal politics; and public responses to crime and punishment. Recent research projects have included an account (with Marion Smith and Evi Girling) of nine-year old children's conversations about justice and punishment and (with Elaine Crawley) a study of older men in English prisons. Richard is the author of Television and the Drama of Crime (1992) and co-author (with Tony Bottoms and Will Hay) of Prisons and the Problem of Order (1996) and (with Evi Girling and Ian Loader) of Crime and Social Change in Middle England (2000). He has also co-edited (with David Garland) Criminology and Social Theory (2000), (with Tim Hope) Crime, Risk and Insecurity (2000) and (with Tim Newburn) Criminal Justice and Political Cultures (2004). He is a member of the editorial boards of several journals including Punishment & Society and the Sociological Review.

Subjects

• Criminal Justice Process and Institutions

Publications

	Public Criminology?(Book)
	Legitimacy and imprisonment revisited: notes on the problem of order ten years after (Book Chapter)
	The politics of imprisonment(Book Chapter)
	Contemporary landscapes of crime, order and control: governance, risk and globalization(Book Chapter)
	Introduction:`What Lies Beyond? Problems, Prospects and Possibilities for Life after Punishment (Journal Article)
	Is there life after imprisonment? How elderly men talk about imprisonment and release (Journal Article)
	The trial and its alternatives as speech situations (Book Chapter)
	Ordinary anxieties and states of emergency: statecraft and spectatorship in the new politics of insecurity (Book Chapter)
	Crime and Social Change in Middle England: Questions of Order in an English Town(Book)

Projects

• Incarceration, social control and human rights.