Andrew Wilson is a senior lecturer in criminology

Criminology

Criminology is the scientific study of the nature, extent, causes, and control of criminal behavior in both the individual and in society...

 at Nottingham Trent University

Nottingham Trent University

Nottingham Trent University is a public teaching and research university in Nottingham, United Kingdom. It was founded as a new university in 1992 from the existing Trent Polytechnic , however it can trace its roots back to 1843 with the establishment of the Nottingham Government School of Design...

, where he is module leader for both victimology and violence.

Wilson conducts research on drug use and the United Kingdom Northern Soul scene. He is commissioning editor of the Internet Journal of Criminology and his 2007 book on northern soul

Northern soul

Northern soul is a music and dance movement that emerged from the British mod scene, initially in northern England in the late 1960s. Northern soul mainly consists of a particular style of black American soul music based on the heavy beat and fast tempo of the mid-1960s Tamla Motown sound...

 music and drug use was reviewed by Stanley Cohen

Stanley Cohen (sociologist)

Professor Stanley Cohen is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics.-Life:Cohen was born in Johannesberg, South Africa in 1942. He grew up in South Africa and was an undergraduate at the University of Witwatersrand, studying Sociology and Social Work. He came to London in...

, David Downes

David Downes (sociologist)

David Downes is a British sociologist and criminologist and is currently Professor Emeritus of Social Administration at the London School of Economics.Downes was one of the founder members of the National Deviancy Conference.-1970s:...

, and Ben Bowling (criminologist).

Amphetamine control research

Wilson has published an account of how crime control policy created a crime displacement effect as an unintended consequence. Changes to the legal classification of amphetamines first led to an increase in chemist shop burglaries and then to target hardening measures in chemists shops by removing amphetamines from the open shelves to locked cabinets alongside class A drugs such as opiates. Mixing the two classes of drugs led to the theft of the entire cabinet's contents leading to a "cross-pollination" between the amphetamine-using and intravenous opiate-using subcultures. The intravenous influence was shown to cause major increases in the numbers of fatalities (from one death in eight years to over 20 in four years) as well as the incidence of infectious diseases such as hepatitis

Hepatitis

Hepatitis is a medical condition defined by the inflammation of the liver and characterized by the presence of inflammatory cells in the tissue of the organ. The name is from the Greek hepar , the root being hepat- , meaning liver, and suffix -itis, meaning "inflammation"...

 in the amphetamine-using subculture.

Criminology research

Wilson has published collaborative research with Anthony Bottoms

Anthony Bottoms

Sir Anthony Edward Bottoms FBA was Wolfson Professor of Criminology at Cambridge University from 1984 to 2006 and until December 2007 a Professor of Criminology jointly at the universities of Cambridge and Sheffield....

in neighbourhood safety.

Wilson also published a study of an underground British subculture, the Northern Soul (2007). His doctorate at the LSE, 'Urban songlines subculture and identity on the 1970s Northern Soul Scene and after' was supervised by Stan Cohen and formed the basis of his book 'Northern Soul'.

Wilson was the main researcher in a study of eight drug markets in deprived areas of the UK that provided evidence of the failure of current drugs policy and. provided key policy information on drug markets in deprived areas.

His British Home Office funded research into civic renewal has also had an impact on policy towards anti social behaviour, while his research into attitudes towards punishing offenders (punitiveness) has been widely cited for revealing that people living in high crime areas may have different attitudes towards the punishment of offenders.

Selected bibliography

• Wilson, A. (2008) Mixing the Medicine: The unintended consequence of amphetamine control on the Northern Soul Scene. Internet Journal of Criminology.
• Wilson, A. (2007) Northern Soul: music drugs and subcultural identity. Cullompton, Devon, Willan Publishing. Published in the Ethnography and Crime series edited by Geoff Pearson and Dick Hobbs.
• Bottoms, A.E., Wilson, A. (2007) Civil Renewal, Control Signals and Neighbourhood Safety. in Brannan, T., John, P., and Stoker, G. Re-energising Citizenship: Strategies for Civil Renewal. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
• Bottoms, A.E., Wilson, A. (2004) Attitudes to punishment in the two high-crime communities In: Bottoms, A., Rex, S., and Robinson, G. (2004) Alternatives to Prison: Options for an insecure society. Cullompton, Devon, Willan Publishing.
• Lupton, R., Wilson, A., May, T., Warburton, H., Turnbull, P.J. (2002) A Rock and a Hard Place: Drug Markets in Deprived Areas. The Home Office. Home Office Research Study 240.
• Wilson, A., May, T., Warburton, H., Lupton, R., Turnbull, P.J. (2002) Heroin and Crack Cocaine Markets in Deprived Areas: Seven Local Case Studies. CASE Report Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE 19 (supplement to the above report).