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Overview

Ian Loader is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily engages with the field of Social Sciences, with a particular focus on subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations, General Health Professions, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Geography, Planning and Development.

Their scholarly output includes work on several main topics:

  • Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
  • Policing Practices and Perceptions
  • Race, History, and American Society
  • Crime Patterns and Interventions
  • Homelessness and Social Issues
  • Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses
  • Crime, Deviance, and Social Control

Ian Loader has contributed to a variety of academic journals, with frequent publications in:

  • The British Journal of Criminology
  • Direito Público
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Annual Review of Criminology
  • American Journal of Cultural Sociology

Recent papers include the following:

  • "Crime, Order and the Two Faces of Conservatism: an Encounter with Criminology's other," 2020, The British Journal of Criminology
  • "Recognition and Redemption: Visions of Safety and Justice in Black Lives Matter," 2021, Direito Público
  • "Recognition and Redemption: Visions of Safety and Justice in Black Lives Matter," 2021, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • "Concerning Cars: Automobility and the Contours of Control, Order, and Harm," 2024, Annual Review of Criminology
  • "Policing and Sense of Place: 'Shallow' and 'Deep' Security in an English Town," 2023, The British Journal of Criminology

Their collaborations include multiple partnerships with the following co-authors:

  • Ben Bradford
  • Evi Girling
  • Richard Sparks
  • Sergen Bahçeci

Best Publications

  • Plural Policing and Democratic Governance

    Ian Loader

  • Policing and the Condition of England: Memory, Politics and Culture

    Ian Loader;Aogán Mulcahy

  • Consumer culture and the commodification of policing and security

    Ian Loader

  • Crime and Social Change in Middle England: Questions of Order in an English Town

    Evi Girling;Ian Loader;Richard Sparks

  • Civilizing Security: Contents

    Ian Loader;Neil Walker

  • Policing and the social: Questions of symbolic power

    Ian Loader

  • Policing as a Public Good: Reconstituting the Connections between Policing and the State

    Ian Loader;Neil Walker

  • Policing, Recognition, and Belonging

    Ian Loader

  • Fall of the ‘Platonic Guardians’Liberalism, Criminology and Political Responses to Crime in England and Wales

    Ian Loader

  • Youth, policing, and democracy

    Ian Loader

  • Necessary Virtues: The Legitimate Place of the State in the Production of Security

    Ian Loader;Neil Walker

  • Policing, securitization and democratization in Europe

    Ian Loader

  • On the emotions of crime, punishment and social control.

    Willem De Haan;Ian Loader

  • Fear and Everyday Urban Lives

    Richard Sparks;Evi Girling;Ian Loader

  • Consuming security? Tools for a sociology of security consumption

    Benjamin Goold;Ian Loader;Angelica Thumala

  • A tainted trade? Moral ambivalence and legitimation work in the private security industry.

    Angélica Thumala;Benjamin Goold;Ian Loader

  • Imagining Crime: Textual Outlaws and Criminal Conversations

    Ian Loader;Alison Young

  • Thinking Normatively About Private Security

    Ian Loader

  • Private security and the demand for protection in contemporary britain

    Ian Loader

  • For an historical sociology of crime policy in England and Wales since 1968

    Ian Loader;Richard Sparks

  • Emotions, Crime and Justice

    Susanne Karstedt;Ian Loader;Heather Strang

  • A Tainted Trade? Moral Ambivalence and Legitimation Work in the Private Security Industry

    Benjamin J. Goold;Ian Loader;Anjelica Thumala

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard Sparks
Richard Sparks University of Edinburgh
Ben Bradford
Ben Bradford University College London

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