Ian Loader

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Professor of Criminology*

Ian Loader is Professor of Criminology and Professorial Fellow of All Souls College.  Ian arrived in Oxford in July 2005 having previously taught at Keele University and the University of Edinburgh, from where where he also obtained his PhD in 1993. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts.

Ian is the author of six books, the most recent of which Public Criminology? was published by Routledge in 2010 (with R. Sparks). He has also edited two recent volumes (on Emotions, Crime and Justice and The Penal Landscape) and has published theoretical and empirical papers on policing, security, public sensibilities towards crime, penal policy and culture, the politics of crime control, and the public roles of criminology. He is currently working on a series of linked papers on 'The Purchase of Security' (with Benjamin Goold and Angelica Thumala) drawing on material generated during two projects funded by The Leverhulme Trust. He is also in the early stages of writing a book (with Richard Sparks) with the working title of A Better Politics of Crime

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 and IPS: International Political Sociology.

Ian was a member of the Commission on English Prisons Today from 2007-2009, and now chairs the Research Advisory Group of the Howard League for Penal Reform. He is co-convener, with the Police Foundation, of the Oxford Policing Policy Forum. Ian is an Associate Fellow of the Institute for Public Policy Research and is a member of the Independent Commission on the Future of Policing. From time to time he writes columns for The Guardian and makes other contributions to public debate about crime and justice.

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Journal Articles

2012

I Loader and S Percy, 'Bringing the ‘Outside’ In and the ‘Inside’ Out: Crossing the Criminology/IR Divide' (2012) 13 Global Crime 213

2011

I Loader, A Thumala and B Goold, 'A Tainted Trade? Moral Ambivalence and Legitimation Work in the Private Security Industry' (2011) 62 British Journal of Sociology 283

I Loader and R Sparks, 'Criminology and Democratic Politics: A Reply to Critics' (2011) 51 British Journal of Criminology 734

2010

I Loader, B Goold and A Thumala, 'Consuming Security?: Tools for a Sociology of Security Consumption' (2010) 14 Theoretical Criminology 3

I Loader, 'For penal moderation: Notes towards a public philosophy of punishment' (2010) 14 Theoretical Criminology 349

I Loader, 'Is it NICE? The Appeal, Limits and Promise of Translating a Health Innovation into Criminal Justice ' (2010) 63 Current Legal Problems 72

I Loader and R Sparks, 'Wacquant and Civic Sociology: Formative Intentions and Formative Experiences' (2010) 10 Criminology & Criminal Justice 405

I Loader and R Sparks, 'What is to be done with Public Criminology?' (2010) 9 Criminology & Public Policy 771

2009

I Loader, 'Ice Cream and Incarceration: On Appetites for Security and Punishment' (2009) 11 Punishment and Society 241

2006

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

I Loader, 'Policing, Recognition and Belonging' (2006) 605 The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 201

2004

I Loader and R Sparks, 'For an Historical Sociology of Crime Policy in England and Wales since 1968' (2004) 7 Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 5

2002

I Loader, 'Governing European Policing: Some Problems and Prospects' (2002) 12 Policing & Society 291

I Loader and W de Haan, 'On the Emotions of Crime, Punishment and Social Control' (2002) 6 Theoretical Criminology 243

I Loader, 'Policing, Securitization and Democratization in Europe' (2002) 2 Criminology and Criminal Justice 125

2001

I Loader, R Sparks and E Girling, 'Fear and Everyday Urban Lives' (2001) 38 Urban Studies (review issue on ?Fear and the City?) 885

I Loader and N Walker, 'Policing as a Public Good: Reconstituting the Connections Between Policing and the State' (2001) 5 Theoretical Criminology 9

I Loader and A Mulcahy, 'The Power of Legitimate Naming: Part I - Chief Constables as Social Commentators in Post-War England' (2001) 41 British Journal of Criminology 41

I Loader and A Mulcahy, 'The Power of Legitimate Naming: Part II - Making Sense of the Elite Police Voice' (2001) 41 British Journal of Criminology 252

2000

I Loader, 'Plural Policing and Democratic Governance' (2000) 9 Social and Legal Studies 323

1999

I Loader, 'Consumer Culture and the Commodification of Policing and Security' (1999) 33 Sociology 373

1998

I Loader, E Girling and R Sparks, 'A Telling Tale: A Case of Vigilantism and its Aftermath in an English Town' (1998) 49 British Journal of Sociology 474

I Loader, E Girling and R Sparks, 'Narratives of Decline: Youth, Dis/order and Community in an English "Middletown"' (1998) 38 British Journal of Criminology 388

1997

I Loader, 'Policing and the Social: Questions of Symbolic Power' (1997) 48 British Journal of Sociology 1

I Loader, 'Private Security and the Demand for Protection in Contemporary Britain' (1997) 7 Policing & Society 143

I Loader, 'Thinking Normatively About Private Security' (1997) 24 Journal of Law and Society 377

1994

I Loader, 'Justice, Democracy and the Limits of Policing: Rethinking Police Accountability' (1994) 3 Social and Legal Studies 521

Books

2010

I Loader and R Sparks, Public Criminology? (Routledge 2010)

2007

I Loader and N Walker, Civilizing Security (Cambridge University Press 2007)

2003

I Loader and A Mulcahy, Policing and the Condition of England: Memory, Politics and Culture (OUP 2003)

2000

I Loader, E Girling and R Sparks, Crime and Social Change in Middle England: Questions of Order in an English Town (Routledge 2000)

1996

I Loader, Youth, Policing and Democracy (Palgrave 1996)

1994

I Loader, S Anderson, R Kinsey and C Smith, Cautionary Tales: Young People, Crime and Policing in Edinburgh (Avebury 1994)

Chapters

2013

I Loader, 'Introduction: Mapping the Penal Landscape of England and Wales' in A Dockley and I Loader (eds), The Penal Landscape: The Howard League Guide to Criminal Justice in England and Wales (London: Routledge 2013)

I Loader and R Sparks, 'Knowledge Politics and Penal Politics in Europe' in T Daems, S Snacken and D van Zyl Smit (eds), European Penology? (Oxford: Hart 2013)

I Loader and R Sparks, 'Unfinished Business: Legitimacy, Crime Control and Democratic Politics' in A Liebling and J Tankebe (eds), Legitimacy and Criminal Justice: An International Exploration (Oxford Oxford University Press 2013)

I Loader, 'Why do the Police Matter? Beyond the Myth of Crime Fighting' in J Brown (ed), The Future of Policing (London: Routledge 2013)

2012

I Loader and R. Sparks, 'Beyond Lamentation: Towards a Democratic Egalitarian Politics of Crime and Justice' in T. Newburn and J. Peay (eds), Policing: Politics, Culture and Control (Oxford: Hart 2012)

I Loader and R Sparks, 'Situating Criminology: On the Production and Consumption of Knowledge about Crime and Justice' in M. Maguire, R. Morgan and R. Reiner (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Criminology (5th Edn) (Oxford University Press 2012)

2011

I Loader and R Sparks, 'Braithwaite, Criminology and the Debate on Public Social Science' in S Parmentier, I Aertson, J Maesschalck, L Paoli and L Walgrave (eds), The Sparking Discipline of Criminology: John Braithwaite and the Construction of Critical Social Science and Social Justice (Leuven University Press 2011)

I Loader and R Sparks, 'Criminology's Public Roles: A Drama in Six Acts' in M Bosworth and C Hoyle (eds), What is Criminology? (Oxford University Press 2011)

I Loader, 'Playing with Fire?: Democracy and the Emotions of Crime and Punishment' in S Karstedt, I Loader and H Strang (eds), Emotions, Crime and Justice (Hart 2011)

2010

I Loader, 'Journeying Into, and Away From, Neo-Liberal Penality' in M McCarthy (ed), Incarceration and Human Rights (Manchester University Press 2010)

2008

I Loader and N Walker, 'Liberty, Security and the Responsible State' in D Leighton and S White (eds), Building a Citizen Society: The Emerging Politics of Republican Democracy (Lawrence & Wishart 2008)

2007

I Loader and R Sparks, 'Contemporary Landscapes of Crime, Order and Control: Governance, Risk and Globalization' in M Maguire, R Morgan and R Reiner (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Criminology (4th Edn) (Oxford University Press 2007)

I Loader, 'The Cultural Lives of Security and Rights' in B Goold and L Lazarus (eds), Security and Human Rights (Hart 2007)

2006

I Loader and N Walker, 'Locating the Public Interest in Transnational Policing' in A Goldsmith and J Sheptycki (eds), Crafting Transnational Policing (Hart 2006)

2005

I Loader and R Sparks, 'For an Historical Sociology of Crime Policy in England and Wales since 1968' in M Matravers (ed), Managing Modernity: Politics and the Culture of Control (Routledge 2005)

I Loader and N Walker, 'Necessary Virtues: The Legitimate Place of the State in the Production of Security' in J Wood and B Dupont (eds), Democracy, Society and the Governance of Security (Cambridge University Press 2005)

2004

I Loader, 'Policing Unlimited?: Security, Civic Governance and the Public Good' in K van der Vijver and J Terpstra (eds), Urban Safety: Problems, Governance and Strategies (IPIT 2004)

I Loader, 'Policing, Securitisation and Democratisation in Europe' in T Newburn and R Sparks (eds), Policing, Securitisation and Democratisation in Europe (Willan 2004)

2002

I Loader and R Sparks, 'Contemporary Landscapes of Crime, Order and Control: Governance, Risk and Globalization' in M Maguire, R Morgan and R Reiner (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Criminology (3rd Edn) (Oxford University Press 2002)

2000

I Loader, E Girling and R Sparks, 'After Success?: Anxieties of Affluence in an English Village' in T Hope and R Sparks (eds), Crime, Risk and Insecurity: Law and Order in Political Discourse and Everyday Life (Routledge 2000)

1999

I Loader, E Girling and R Sparks, 'Landscapes of Protection: The Past, Present and Futures of Policing in an English Town' in P. Carlen and R. Morgan (eds), Crime Unlimited: Questions for the Twenty-First Century (Palgrave 1999)

1998

I Loader, E Girling and R Sparks, 'Crime and the Sense of One's Place: Globalization, Restructuring and Insecurity in an English Town' in V Ruggerio, N South and I Taylor (eds), The New European Criminology: Crime and Social Order in Europe (Routledge 1998)

I Loader, 'Criminology and the Public Sphere: Arguments for Utopian Realism' in P Walton and J Young (eds), The New Criminology Revisited (Macmillan 1998)

Edited books

2013

I Loader and A Dockley (eds), The Penal Landscape: The Howard League Guide to Criminal Justice in England and Wales (London: Routledge 2013)

2012

I Loader and S Percy (eds), Special Issue of Global Crime on 'Reordering Security' ( 2012)

2011

I Loader, S Karstedt and H Strang (eds), Emotions, Crime and Justice (Hart 2011)

2010

I Loader and M Bosworth (eds), Special issue of Theoretical Criminology on 'Re-inventing Penal Parsimony' ( 2010)

2002

I Loader and W de Haan (eds), Special issue of Theoretical Criminology on 'Crime, Punishment and the Emotions' ( 2002)

Others

2012

I Loader, 'Police commissioners will make the men in uniform more responsive to the public they serve ' (2012)

I Loader, 'Why communty engagement matters?' (2012) Opening Address to Police Foundation Annual Conference

2011

I Loader and R Muir, 'A Manifesto for Progressive Police and Crime Commissioners' (2011) New Statesman ('The Staggers' blog)

I Loader, 'Penal Policy Takes a Regressive Turn' (2011) New Statesman ('The Staggers' blog)

2010

I Loader, 'Criminology in a hot climate' (2010) Public Lecture, British Library

I Loader, 'Redrawing the blue line' (2010) The Guardian

2009

I Loader, 'How, and why, to stop banking on prisons (2009 Perrie Lecture)' (2009) Prison Service Journal

I Loader, 'Why penal reform should be a Conservative issue' (2009) Conservative Home

2008

I Loader, 'Restraining Order' (2008) Progress

I Loader, 'Straw's embrace of penal excess ignores public will' (2008) The Guardian

I Loader, 'The Great Victim of this Get-tough Hyperactivity is Labour' (2008) The Guardian

2007

I Loader, 'This Internment Lobby Risks Harming not Just Liberty, But Security Itself' (2007) The Guardian

I Loader, 'We Lock People up with No Thought and to Little Effect' (2007) The Guardian

2006

I Loader, 'Re-Balancing the Criminal Justice System?: A Response to Tony Blair' (2006)

Reviews

2011

I Loader, 'Where is Policing Studies? (Review Essay)' (2011) 51 British Journal of Criminology 449

2010

I Loader, 'Sir Ian Blair: The Burkean Top Cop' (2010) 81 Political Quarterly 459

2008

I Loader, 'The Anti-Politics of Crime (Review Essay)' (2008) 12 Theoretical Criminology 399

2007

I Loader and L Zedner, 'Police Beyond Law? (Review Essay)' (2007) 10 New Criminal Law Review 142

2004

I Loader and N Walker, 'State of Denial?: Rethinking the Governance of Security' (2004) 6 Punishment and Society 221

Reports

2011

I Loader and R Muir, 'Progressive Police and Crime Commissioners: An Opportunity for the Centre Left' (London: Institute for Public Policy Research ('IPPR Original') 2011)

I Loader, T Lanning and R Muir, 'Redesigning Justice: Reducing Crime Through Justice Reinvestment' (London: Institute for Public Policy Research 2011)


Interests

Teaching: Criminology and Criminal Justice; Criminology

Research: Policing and security; penal policy and culture; public sensibilities towards crime, order and justice; crime control and democratic politics; criminology and social and political theory.

Other details

Correspondence address:

Centre for Criminology
Manor Road Building
Manor Road
Oxford OX1 3UQ

other affiliation(s):

All Souls College



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