Ben Bowling

Benjamin Bowling
Nationality	British
Alma mater	Manchester Metropolitan University London School of Economics Birkbeck College
Occupation	Professor of Criminology & Criminal Justice
Parent(s)	Frank 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. Bowling is a recipient of the Radzinowicz Memorial Prize Awarded for the best article in the British Journal of Criminology in 1999.

Bowling has a BA in Psychology from Manchester Metropolitan University and a PhD from the London School of Economics.

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 and at the East China University of Political Science and Law.

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.

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