Professor Sir Anthony Bottoms - Biography

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Emeritus Professor, based in the Institute

Biography

Emeritus Professor Sir Anthony Bottoms was Wolfson Professor of Criminology from 1984 to 2006, and he also served as Director of the Institute of Criminology from 1984 to 1998. He is now Emeritus Wolfson Professor of Criminology at Cambridge, and Honorary Professor of Criminology at the University of Sheffield. He is also a Life Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.

His interests within criminology are wide-ranging, and include desistance from crime, socio-spatial criminology, penology, and theoretical criminology.