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Sir Anthony Edward Bottoms FBA (born 29 August 1939) is a British criminologist. He is life fellow at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, having previously been a Wolfson Professor of Criminology at the Institute of Criminology in the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge from 1984 to 2006 [1] and until December 2007 a professor of criminology jointly at the universities of Cambridge and Sheffield. [2]

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Biography

Bottoms was educated at Eltham College and Corpus Christi College, Oxford (BA), followed by Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (Dip. Criminol.), and a PhD at Sheffield University. [3] [4]

He worked as a probation officer before entering academic life as a researcher at Cambridge. At Cambridge, he worked at the new Institute of Criminology under the guidance of Leon Radzinowicz. Subsequently, he became a lecturer in Sheffield (1968), becoming a professor there in 1976. [5] He was knighted in 2001 for services to the criminal justice system, [6] an Honorary Doctor of Laws at the University of Edinburgh in 2015, and is a Fellow of the British Academy. [2] He is life fellow at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. [7]

Bottoms' influence within British and global criminology and upon criminal justice practice has been considerable. He has published and contributed towards a large number of highly influential journal articles, official reports, book chapters, and books on topics including environmental criminology, probation, the sociology of punishment, community penalties, desistance research, policing, and prisons. Among his contributions, he coined the term 'populist punitiveness' in 1995, subsequently more widely referred to as penal populism, a hypothesis that became influential within the sociology of punishment. [8]

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References

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  3. Notices, admin.cam.ac.uk. 10 June 2005.
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  6. BBC News, 15 June 2001.
  7. "Fitzwilliam College Law Course Homepage". Fitzwilliam College. 2010. Archived from the original on 29 August 2010. Retrieved 1 September 2010.
  8. Karen Gelb (2014). Penal Populism, Sentencing Councils and Sentencing Policy. Routledge. p. 3. ISBN   9781317821847.