Nigel South is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Essex, Department of Sociology and Criminology. His research encompasses, among other areas, private policing, drug markets and drug use, and environmental crime. His research on private policing and drug issues is widely cited, and he is recognised as one of the pioneers of green criminology.

I accept the Critical Criminologist of the Year award with gratitude and humility—but not without devoting careful thought to how  to...

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“Life is not symmetrical, but symmetry helps us understand its patterns—and rough edges.” One effective method to hone your writing...

"A life does not fit in a box, but a box can help us understand life"—Or at least, that is what the history of criminology has taught us.

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David R. Goyes María sits in her apartment in a poor barrio in Medellín, Colombia, cradling an album full of photos of her late husband,...

My phone started beeping at 1.15 a.m. on a Sunday. Thousands of kilometres from me, in the middle of an Indigenous territory, the sender...