Ben Bowling

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ISBN 9780199577699
  • Global Policing (with James Sheptycki, SAGE Publishing 2012) ISBN   9781849200820
  • Stop and Search: Police Power in Global Context (edited with Leanne Weber, Routledge 2012) ISBN   9781138944107

    • in 2012 Bowling published (with James Sheptycki) a co-edited four-volume major work for SAGE Publishing on Global Policing and Transnational Law Enforcement. He has published numerous articles in the Modern Law Review , Criminal Law Review , Policing and Society and Theoretical Criminology .

    Bowling's studies of Violent Racism (Oxford University Press 1998) and Racism, Crime and Justice (with Coretta Phillips, Longman 2002) are the standard works on these subjects.[ citation needed ]

    Public engagement

    Bowling submitted evidence to the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry in 1999 [12] and has been a specialist adviser to the House of Commons, Home Affairs Committee, [13] the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the Equality and Human Rights Commission, [14] the European Commission, Interpol and the United Nations. [15]

    He is a founding member of StopWatch, a charity that works to inform the public about the police's use of Stop and Search powers in the UK and to promote fair, effective and accountable policing. [16] Bowling has appeared in the media commenting on stop and search and criminal justice. [17]

    Psychotherapy

    Bowling is an honorary psychotherapist with the Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust. He has an MSc in Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy from Birkbeck College and is a member of British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.

    Awards and honours

    Bowling is a recipient of the Radzinowicz Memorial Prize awarded for the best article in the British Journal of Criminology in 1999. He was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in 2005 [18] and a Fellow of the British Academy in 2022. [7] [19]

    Publications

    Bowling's publications include: [6]

    Personal life

    Bowling is the frontman of the British blues band Doc Bowling and his Blues Professors. [20] [21]

    References

    1. ↑ Benjamin Bowling at Library of Congress
    2. 1 2 Bowling, Benjamin (1995). Policing violent racism : policy and practice in the East London locality. jisc.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of London. EThOS   uk.bl.ethos.294956.
    3. ↑ Grainger, Katherine Jane (2013). The 'whole life order' : its genesis, the challenges it both poses and faces, and its uncertain future. kcl.ac.uk (PhD thesis). King's College London. OCLC   1027309793. EThOS   uk.bl.ethos.733314. Lock-green.svg
    4. ↑ "Benjamin Bowling – Research Portal, King's College, London". kclpure.kcl.ac.uk.
    5. ↑ "Professor Benjamin Bowling". King's College London . 22 July 2022. Retrieved 8 January 2025.
    6. 1 2 3 Ben Bowling publications indexed by Google Scholar OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
    7. 1 2 "Record number of women elected to the British Academy". Academy of Social Sciences. 22 July 2022. Retrieved 27 January 2023.
    8. ↑ "Guyanese-born artist Frank Bowling awarded Knighthood". Guyana Chronicle . 11 October 2020. Retrieved 7 January 2025.
    9. ↑ Bangura, Yusuf; Stavenhagen, Rodolfo (5 April 2005). Racism and Public Policy. Springer. ISBN   9780230554986 . Retrieved 17 February 2017.
    10. ↑ Hopkins, Nick (10 November 1999). "Hard figures". The Guardian . Retrieved 27 January 2023.
    11. ↑ Global Policing. ASIN   1849200815.
    12. ↑ Bowling, Ben (17 February 1999). "Stephen Lawrence: Facing the ugly facts". The Guardian . Retrieved 26 January 2023.
    13. ↑ "House of Commons – Home Affairs – Written Evidence". Parliament of the United Kingdom. 15 June 2007. Retrieved 17 April 2023.
    14. ↑ "Stop and think: a critical review of the use of stop and search powers in England" (PDF). Equality and Human Rights Commission. March 2010. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
    15. ↑ "Developing Fair and Effective Stop and Search Powers". King's College London . Retrieved 26 January 2023.
    16. ↑ "Jesse Jackson launches group to tackle Stop & Search". BBC News . 18 October 2010. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
    17. ↑ "Officers arrest 450 in knife crime operation". BBC News . 25 June 2014. Retrieved 17 February 2017.
    18. ↑ "Fellows – Academy of Social Sciences". Academy of Social Sciences. Retrieved 17 February 2017.
    19. ↑ "Professor Benjamin Bowling FBA". Academy of Social Sciences. Retrieved 27 January 2023.
    20. ↑ Farrington, Dayna (18 February 2015). "Night of Blues in Bewdley". Kidderminster Shuttle. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
    21. ↑ "Ben Bowling entdeckt den Biodiesel Blues". shz (in German). 19 June 2013. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
    Benjamin Bowling
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    Ben Adult.jpg
    Ben Bowling, on the Yorkshire Moors, wearing a scarf made by his stepmum, the weaver Rachel Scott
    Born (1962-11-25) 25 November 1962 (age 62) [1]
    NationalityBritish
    OccupationProfessor of Criminology & Criminal Justice
    Parent(s) Frank Bowling and Claire Spencer
    Academic background
    Alma mater Manchester Metropolitan University (BA)
    London School of Economics (PhD) [2]
    Birkbeck College (MSc)
    Thesis Policing violent racism: policy and practice in the East London locality  (1995)
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