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Citations
10923
World Ranking
2438
National Ranking
422

Research.com Recognitions

  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Tim Newburn is affiliated with the London School of Economics and Political Science in the United Kingdom. Their research work primarily falls within the domain of Social Sciences, with a focus on subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations, Computer Networks and Communications, Public Administration, and Management Science and Operations Research.

Their scholarly contributions cover several key topics, including:

  • Policing Practices and Perceptions
  • Crime Patterns and Interventions
  • Policy Transfer and Learning
  • Public Policy and Administration Research
  • Evaluation and Performance Assessment
  • Crime, Deviance, and Social Control
  • Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance

Tim Newburn has published in multiple venues, with frequent appearances in:

  • Policy Press eBooks
  • Crime and Justice
  • Annual Review of Criminology
  • Policing & Society
  • The British Journal of Criminology

Their published papers include:

  • The Causes and Consequences of Urban Riot and Unrest, 2020, Annual Review of Criminology
  • The inevitable fallibility of policing, 2022, Policing & Society
  • Policing, punishment and comparative penality, 2022, The British Journal of Criminology
  • The inevitable fallibility of policing, 2022, CrimRxiv
  • When Crime Policies Travel: Cross-National Policy Transfer in Crime Control, 2021, Crime and Justice

In addition, they have contributed to book publications, notably with Policy Press, which includes multiple editions of Preventing Violence scheduled for 2025.

Frequently collaborating with other researchers, Tim Newburn's co-authors include:

  • Keir Irwin-Rogers
  • Luke Billingham
  • Alistair Fraser
  • Fern Gillon
  • Susan McVie

They have been recognized as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • Private Security and Public Policing

    Trevor David Butler Jones;Tim Newburn

  • The Transformation of Policing? Understanding Current Trends in Policing Systems

    Trevor David Butler Jones;Tim Newburn

  • Just boys doing business? : men, masculinities and crime

    Tim Newburn;Elizabeth Anne Stanko

  • Policy Transfer and Criminal Justice

    Trevor Jones;Tim Newburn

  • Plural Policing : A Comparative Perspective

    Trevor Jones;Tim Newburn

  • Youth Offending and Restorative Justice

    Tim Newburn;Adam Crawford

  • Understanding and preventing police corruption : lessons from the literature

    Tim Newburn

  • Policing and the police

    R. Reiner;T. Newburn

  • Handbook of policing

    Tim Newburn

  • Definitely, maybe not? The normalisation of recreational drug use amongst young people

    Michael Shiner;Tim Newburn

  • The Future of Policing

    Rodney Morgan;Tim Newburn

  • Tough on crime: penal policy in England and Wales

    Tim Newburn

  • Reading the riots : investigating England's summer of disorder

    Paul Lewis;Tim Newburn;Matthew Taylor;Catriona Mcgillivray

  • Persistent Young Offenders

    Ann Hagell;Tim Newburn

  • Atlantic crossings ‘Policy transfer’ and crime control in the USA and Britain

    Tim Newburn

  • Democracy and Policing

    David John Smith;Trevor Jones;Tim Newburn

  • An exploratory evaluation of restorative justice schemes

    David Robert Miers;Mike Maguire;Shelagh Goldie;Karen Sharpe

  • The Commodification of Policing: Security Networks in the Late Modern City:

    Tim Newburn

  • Youth offending and restorative justice: implementing reform in youth justice

    Adam Crawford;Tim Newburn

  • POLICING AND THE IDEA OF DEMOCRACY

    Trevor Jones;Tim Newburn;David J. Smith

  • Policing developing democracies

    Mercedes S Hinton;Tim Newburn

Frequent Co-Authors

Ann Netten
Ann Netten University of Kent
Robert Reiner
Robert Reiner London School of Economics and Political Science
Richard Sparks
Richard Sparks University of Edinburgh
Eugene McLaughlin
Eugene McLaughlin City, University of London
Eric Dunning
Eric Dunning University of Leicester

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