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	text:  larger  smaller		Ian Loader Professor of Criminology +  Ian Loader is Professor of Criminology and Director of the Centre for Criminology. He arrived at Oxford in 2005 from Keele University, where he had worked since 1992 in the Department of Criminology. Prior to that he was a Lecturer in Criminology and Jurisprudence at the University of Edinburgh, from where he obtained his PhD in 1993. Ian is author or co-author of five books - Cautionary Tales (1994, Avebury, with S. Anderson, R. Kinsey and C. Smith), Youth, Policing and Democracy (1996, Palgrave), Crime and Social Change in Middle England (2000, Routledge, with E. Girling and R. Sparks), Policing and the Condition of England: Memory, Politics and Culture (2003, Oxford, with A. Mulcahy) and Civilizing Security (2007, Cambridge, with N. Walker). He has also written numerous papers on contemporary transformations in policing and security, and on the intersections between politics, criminology and crime control. Ian is an Editor of the British Journal of Criminology, Associate Editor of Theoretical Criminology and is on the Editorial Boards of Policing and Society, Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice, The Open Criminology Journal and IPS: International Political Sociology. He is also a member of the Commission on English Prisons Today and co-convener, with the Police Foundation, of the Oxford Policing Policy Forum. His research interests are: Policing and security; public sensibilities towards crime, order and justice; the relationship between crime control and political culture and ideologies; criminology and social and political theory. Subject groups : Criminal Justice and Penology : Criminology Publications (sorted by year) I Loader and N Walker, Civilizing Security (Cambridge University Press 2007) Other notes:50:50 with co-author (drafts of four chapters each, plus a jointly written final chapter) ISBN: 978-0-521-69159-8 I Loader, 'Fall of the ‘Platonic Guardians': Liberalism, Criminology and Political Responses to Crime in England and Wales' (2006) 46 (4) British Journal of Criminology 561-586 DOI: 10.1093/bjc/azi091 ISBN: 1464-3529 I Loader, 'Policing, Recognition and Belonging' (2006) 605 (1) The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 201-221 DOI: 10.1177/0002716206286723 ISBN: 1552-3349 I Loader and A Mulcahy, Policing and the Condition of England: Memory, Politics and Culture (OUP 2003) Other notes:written in collaboration with the researcher on the ESRC-funded project which led up to it. This author wrote 7 of the 9 chapters and re-drafted the other two. ISBN: 0-19-829906-0 Correspondence address: Centre for Criminology, Manor Road Building Manor Road Oxford OX1 3UQ Link to personal web site Link to Centre for Criminology Link to All Souls College Link to University email/phone directory in new window