TIM NEWBURN is Professor of Criminology and Social Policy at the London School of Economics. He is the author, co-author or editor of many books, including Criminology (Routledge, 2012), Handbook of Policing (Willan, 2008) and The Sage Handbook of Criminological Theory (Sage, 2010). His work with the Guardian newspaper led to Reading the Riots: Investigating England's Summer of Disorder (Guardian Shorts, 2011), and will be published in more extended form by Guardian/Faber and Faber in 2016.