Robert Reiner (scholar)

Robert Reiner is a British sociologist who has played a large role in making police studies a distinct field.[1] Currently he is Emeritus Professor of Criminology at London School of Economics Law School.[2] He was Reader in Criminology at Bristol University and at Brunel University, President of the British Society of Criminology from 1993-6 and Director of the LSE Mannheim Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice 1995-8.[1][3]

He was born in Hungary in 1946. His refugee parents brought him to England when he was two. In 1967 he graduated from the University of Cambridge with a degree in Economics where he was taught, among others, by Ralph Miliband. He completed MSc in Sociology from London School of Economics in 1969.[1]

His book The Politics of the Police had a formative influence on the growth of police studies in UK and has been described as "the finest, most authoritative and comprehensive account of British policing in the post-war period and remains the standard work in the field."[1]

He was a co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Criminology.[2]

Selected works

His other works include[2]

  • The Blue-Coated Worker (Cambridge University Press 1978)
  • Chief Constables (Oxford University Press 1991)
  • Law and Order: An Honest Citizen's Guide to Crime and Control (Polity Press 2007)
  • Beyond Law and Order (Macmillan 1991) (with M.Cross) (editor)
  • Accountable Policing (Institute for Public Policy Research 1993) (with S.Spencer) (editor)
  • Policing (Aldershot: Dartmouth 1996) (with M.Maguire and R.Morgan) (editor)
  • Policing, Popular Culture and Political Economy : Towards a Social Democratic Criminology (Ashgate 2011)
  • Crime: The Mystery of the Common-Sense Concept (Polity 2016)

‘Social Democratic Criminology’ (Routledge 2021)

References

  1. ^ a b c d Bowling, Ben; Sheptycki, James (2015-05-04). "Robert Reiner: a pioneer in policing scholarship". Police Practice and Research. 16 (3): 269–283. doi:10.1080/15614263.2014.915509. ISSN 1561-4263.
  2. ^ a b c "Professor Robert Reiner". The London School of Economics and Political Science. Retrieved 2025-11-07.
  3. ^ Marks M. (2010). The politics of the police, Robert Reiner: Book reviews. Acta Criminologica : African Journal of Criminology & Victimology, 23(2), 115–123. https://doi.org/10.10520/EJC29034
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