Sir Anthony Edward Bottoms FBA (born 29 August 1939) was Wolfson Professor of Criminology

Wolfson Professor of Criminology

The Wolfson Professor of Criminology is a senior professorship at the University of Cambridge. The position was established in 1960 by a benefaction by the Wolfson Foundation and is the first of its kind in Britain. The position's first holder was Sir Leon Radzinowicz. Recently, American...

 at Cambridge University from 1984 to 2006 and until December 2007 a Professor of Criminology

Criminology

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

 jointly at the universities of Cambridge and Sheffield.

Bottoms was born 29 August 1939 and educated at Eltham College

Eltham College

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 and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

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, followed by a PhD at Sheffield. He worked as a probation officer

Probation officer

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 before entering academic life as a researcher at Cambridge, then a lecturer in Sheffield (1968), becoming a professor there in 1976. He was made Knight Bachelor

Knight Bachelor

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 in 2001 for services to the criminal justice system, and is a Fellow of the British Academy

British Academy

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. He is life fellow at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge

Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge

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Some Publications

• R. Sparks, A.E. Bottoms and W. Hay (1996) Prisons and the Problem of Order, Clarendon Press
• A. von Hirsch, A.E. Bottoms, E. Burney and P-O. Wikström (1999) Criminal Deterrence and Sentence Severity, Hart Publishing
• A.E. Bottoms (2001) ‘Compliance and Community Penalties’ in A.E. Bottoms, L. Gelsthorpe and S. Rex (Eds) Community Penalties: Change and Challenges, Willan Publishing
• A.E. Bottoms (2002) ‘Morality, Crime, Compliance and Public Policy’ in A.E. Bottoms and M. Tonry (Eds) Ideology, Crime and Criminal Justice, Willan Publishing
• A.E. Bottoms (2003) ‘Theoretical Reflections on the Evaluation of a Penal Policy Initiative’ in L. Zedner and A. Ashworth (Eds) The Criminological Foundations of Penal Policy, Oxford University Press
• A.E.Bottoms (2006) ‘Incivilities, Offence and Social Order in Residential Communities’, in A. von Hirsch and A. Simester (Eds) Incivilities: Regulating Offensive Behaviour, Hart Publishing
• C. Walston & A. Bottoms(Eds) Challenging Crime: A Portrait of the Cambridge Institute of Criminology, Third Millennium Publishing

External links

• YouTube Anthony Bottoms Lecture part 1 (2008)