Ben Bowling

Benjamin Bowling is a Professor of Criminology & Criminal Justice, author and acting Dean of The Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London. Bowling is a recipient of the Radzinowicz Memorial Prize Awarded for the best article in the British Journal of Criminology in 1999.

He joined King's as a lecturer in law in 1999 and has been a visiting professor at the University of the West Indies, at Monash University and at the East China University of Political Science and Law.

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

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 the Academy of Social Sciences in 2005.

Bowling has recently published (with James Sheptycki) a co-edited four-volume Major Work for Sage 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.

After working at the Home Office Research Unit he moved to City University of New York and taught at John Jay College of Criminal Justice before returning to a lectureship at the University of Cambridge in 1996.