(Visiting Professor of Criminology, University of Kent)

Jeff Ferrell earned his PhD in Sociology from the University of Texas at Austin, and is currently Professor in the Department of Sociology, Criminal Justice, and Anthropology at Texas Christian University, and Visiting Professor of Criminology at the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK. He is the author of Crimes of Style (Garland, 1993; Northeastern University Press, 1996), Tearing Down the Streets (Palgrave/Macmillan/St. Martin’s, 2001/2002), Empire of Scrounge (New York University Press, 2006), and, with Keith Hayward and Jock Young, Cultural Criminology: An Invitation (Sage, London, forthcoming). He is also the co-editor of the books Cultural Criminology (Northeastern University Press, 1995), Ethnography at the Edge (Northeastern University Press, 1998), Making Trouble (Aldine de Gruyter, 1999), and Cultural Criminology Unleashed (Routledge/Cavendish/Glasshouse, 2004). Jeff Ferrell is the founding and current editor of the New York University Press book series Alternative Criminology, and one of the founding and current editors of the journal Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal (Sage, London), winner of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers’ 2006 Charlesworth Award for Best New Journal. In 1998 he received the Critical Criminologist of the Year Award from the Division of Critical Criminology of the American Society of Criminology.