David S. Wall

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David S. Wall (BA, MA, M. Phil, PhD) is Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Leeds, Leeds, UK. He was formerly the Director of the Centre for Criminal Justice Studies (2000-2005) and Head of the School of Law (2005-2007).

[edit] Research

David Wall’s specialist area of research is criminal justice and information technology, policing and cybercrime, and he has a sustained track record of conducting sole and collaborative research projects for the EU, AHRC, ESRC, Nuffield, Home Office, Law Society and others. He is currently working with Transcrime (Università Cattolica del sacro Cuore of Milan and the University of Trento) and the CNRS, (Sorbonne, Paris) into "Public and Private Partnerships for Reducing Counterfeiting of Fashion Apparels and Accessories" as part of the EU Aegis Programme Framework 6.

[edit] Publications

David has 9 books and 50 plus articles, chapters and reports.

A recent selection of his articles is available at the SSRN site at <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=376504>.

His books are as follows:

Wall, D.S. (2007) Cybercrime: The transformation of crime in the information age, Cambridge: Polity. 276+xii, ISBN 0745627358 (hard back), ISBN 0745627366 (paper back).

Wall, D.S. (ed) (2003) Cyberspace Crime, Aldershot: Dartmouth/ Ashgate (Dartmouth International Library of Criminology and Penology). 582 + xxvi pp. (ISBN 0 7546 2190 1).

Wall, D.S. (ed) (2001) Crime and the Internet, London: Routledge. 221 + xi pp. (ISBN 0415244293) (paper back), (0415244285) (hard back).

Ryan, M., Savage, S. and Wall. D.S. (eds) (2001) Policy Networks in Criminal Justice, London: Palgrave (McMillan Press), 226 + xv pp. (ISBN 0 333 750241).

Akdeniz, Y., Walker, C.P. and Wall. D.S. (eds) (2000) The Internet, Law and Society, London: Longman, 388 + xx pp. (ISBN 0582356563).

Stallion, M. and Wall, D.S. (1999) The British Police: Police Forces and Chief Officers 1829 -2000, Bramshill: Police History Society, 269 + iv pp. (ISBN 0-9512538-4-0).

Wall, D.S. (1998) The Chief Constables of England and Wales: The socio-legal history of a criminal justice elite, Aldershot: Dartmouth, 341 + xi pp. (ISBN 1 85521 714 7).

Young, R. and Wall, D.S. (eds) (1996) Access to Criminal Justice: legal aid, lawyers and the defence of liberty, London: Blackstone Press, 376 +xiv pp. (ISBN 1 85431 502 1).

Bottomley, A.K. Coleman, C. Dixon, D. Gill, M.L. and Wall, D.S. (1991) The Impact of PACE: Policing in a Northern Force, Hull: Hull University, 198 + vi pp. (ISBN 0-85958-726 6).

David is associate editor of International Review of Law, Computers and Technology (Taylor and Francis) and is on the editorial board of Policing and Society (Taylor and Francis), Criminal Justice Matters (CCJS/KCL), Security Journal (Palgrave).

[edit] Other Works

Aside from work into Cybercrimes and Criminal Justice, David also has an interest in popular cultures. He once played in the 1980s folk/ rock group God's Little Monkeys (formerly Malcolm's Interview) and also the Fabulous Salamanders. Within his academic work he has written articles on celebrity cultures and intellectual property rights. See: Wall, D.S. (2003) “Policing Elvis: legal action and the shaping of post-mortem celebrity culture as contested space”, Entertainment Law, Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 35-69 (ISSN 1473-0987) [published in November 2004]. Also reproduced online in The Entertainment and Sports Law Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, <http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/elj/eslj/issues/volume2/number3/wall.pdf>.