Areas of Research/Interest: The legal institutions of punishment and control; history and sociology of criminological knowledge; social solidarity; the welfare state.

Fellowships/Honors: Elected a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford 1997 (Visit TBA); appointed Honorary Visiting Professor, Edinburgh University (1998); elected to the Board of Trustees of the Law and Society Association (1996-7); Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh; a founding editor of Edinburgh Law Review, 1997; Editor-in-Chief of Punishment and Society: The International Journal of Penology, 1998.

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Select Publications:

Capital Punishment and American Culture in Punishment & Society, 7(4) (2005).

Penal Excess and Surplus Meaning: Public Torture Lynchings in 20th Century America in Law & Society Review, vol 39 (2005).

Concepts of Culture in the Sociology of Punishment in Theoretical Criminology, vol 10 No 4 (2006).

Punishment and Modern Society: A Study in Social Theory (1990) Co-published by the University of Chicago Press and Oxford University Press, 312 pages.

The Culture of Control: Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society (2001) Published in North America by University of Chicago Press and elsewhere by Oxford University Press.

Criminology and Social Theory (2000) (Co-edited with Richard Sparks) Oxford University Press.