From September 2007 to February 2008, I shall be Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the CJ-Quest Network, SCCJR, University of Edinburgh.

I have been Professor of Criminology at Keele University since 1997. Before coming to Keele in 1994, I held positions at the Universities of Manchester and Missouri-St. Louis, CACI Ltd., and as a Principal Research Officer at the Home Office Research and Planning Unit. I was Director of the Economic and Social Research Council Crime and Social Order Research Programme (1993-1997).  I hold a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of London.

I am Workpackage 6 Co-ordinator for the CRIMPREV Network (Framework 6) and a member of the Groupe européen de recherche sur les normativités (GERN). I am a member of the Crime and Justice Statistics User Group and a representative to the Statistical Users' Forum (Royal Statistical Society). I am an academic adviser to the International Centre for the Prevention of Crime (ICPC), the European Forum for Urban Safety (EFUS) and the Neighbourhood Policing Programme (Home Office/ACPO). 

My research interests lie in the fields of victimology; communities, crime prevention and community safety; and evidence, policy-making, and evaluation research methodology in criminal justice. I have published widely and internationally on these topics, including the USA, Canada, Germany, Italy, France and Poland. I have extensive experience of analysing crime victimisation surveys and crime statistics, including the British Crime Survey. I have directed large-scale programme evaluation studies, including the Priority Estates Project and the Home Office Reducing Burglary Initiative, and have carried out research for the UK Statistics Commission on users’ perspectives on crime statistics. I have also given evidence to the House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee on government use of evidence in policy-making.

 My current research interests lie in understanding both the macro-sociological dynamics of crime, via the analysis of crime trends, and the micro-level dynamics of crime victimisation and offending, via the modelling of survey data. I am also concerned with the relationship between criminological research, policy-making and evaluation.

 

Recent publications include:

 

T. Hope (in press, 2007). ‘Thoery and method: The social epidemiology of crime victims’. In S. Walklate (Ed.) Handbook on Victims and Victimology. Uffculme, Devon: Willan.

T. Hope (2006). ‘Mass Consumption, Mass Predation - Private Versus Public Action? The Case Of Domestic Burglary In England And Wales’. In R. Lévy, L. Mucchielli, R. Zaubermann (Eds.) Crime et Insécurité: un demi-siècle de bouleversements – mélanges pour et avec Philippe Robert.  Paris: editions l’Harmattan.