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.^[4][5][6] Bowling is a recipient of the Radzinowicz Memorial Prize Awarded for the best article in the British Journal of Criminology in 1999.

Education[]

Bowling has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Manchester Metropolitan University^{[citation needed]} and a PhD from the London School of Economics.^[2][7] He has a Master of Science degree Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy from Birkbeck College.^{[citation needed]}

Career and research[]

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.^{[citation needed]}

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^[8] and at the East China University of Political Science and Law.^{[citation needed]}

Bowling's research^[6] examines practical, political and legal problems in policing and the connections between local and global police power. His work exploring central themes of fairness, effectiveness and accountability has been published in three books

1. Policing the Caribbean (Oxford University Press 2010)^{[ISBN missing]}
2. Global Policing (with James Sheptycki, Sage 2012)^{[ISBN missing]}
3. Stop & Search: Police Power in Global Context (edited with Leanne Weber, Routledge 2012)^{[ISBN missing]}

Bowling has recently^[when?] 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.^{[citation needed]}

Public engagement[]

Bowling submitted evidence to the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry in 1999^[9] and has been a specialist adviser to the House of Commons, Home Affairs Committee,^[10] Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Equality and Human Rights Commission,^[11] the European Commission, Interpol and the United Nations.^[12]

He is a founding member of StopWatch, a charity that works to inform the public about the use of stop and search and to promote fair, effective and accountable policing.^[13] Bowling has appeared in the media commenting on stop and search and criminal justice.^[14]

Psychotherapy[]

Bowling is an Honorary Psychotherapist with the Central and North West London NHS Trust. He has an MSc 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 the Academy of Social Sciences in 2005.^[15]

Publications[]

Bowling's publications^[6] include:

• Young People and Crime (Home Office 1995)^{[ISBN missing]}
• Violent Racism (Oxford University Press 1999)^{[ISBN missing]}
• Racism, Crime and Justice (with Coretta Phillips, Longman 2004)^{[ISBN missing]}
• Policing the Caribbean (Oxford University Press 2010)^{[ISBN missing]}
• Global Policing (With James Sheptycki, Sage 2012)^{[ISBN missing]}
• Stop & Search: Police Power in Global Context (with Leanne Weber, Routledge 2012)^{[ISBN missing]}
• Global Policing and Transnational Law Enforcement Volumes 1 – 4 (with James Sheptycki, Sage 2015)^{[ISBN missing]}

Personal life[]

Bowling is the frontman of the British blues band Doc Bowling and his Blues Professors.^[16][17]

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