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.^[1] 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 BA in Psychology from Manchester Metropolitan University and a PhD from the London School of Economics.^[2]

Career

Professor

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.

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^[3] and at the East China University of Political Science and Law.

Research

Bowling’s research 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 – Policing the Caribbean (Oxford University Press 2010), Global Policing (with James Sheptycki, Sage 2012) and Stop & Search: Police Power in Global Context (edited with Leanne Weber, Routledge 2012) 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.

Public engagement

Bowling submitted evidence to the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry in 1999^[4] and has been a specialist adviser to the House of Commons, Home Affairs Committee,^[5] Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Equality and Human Rights Commission,^[6] the European Commission, Interpol and the United Nations.^[7]

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.^[8]

Bowling has appeared in the media commenting on stop and search and criminal justice.^[9]

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 Member of British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.

Music

Bowling is the frontman of the British blues band Doc Bowling and his Blues Professors.^[10][11]

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.^[12]

Selected works

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

References

External links

• Ben Bowling at Google Scholar