Publications & Team

Current Research

Mike is currently working on a large EU-funded project, FIDUCIA, looking at the best ways of controlling emerging forms of crime across Europe. The project has thirteen partners in different European countries, and will report in 2015. He is also analysing the 'Trust in Justice' module in the 2010 European Social Survey testing a range of procedural justice hypotheses. Other work includes an evaluation of training on restorative justice and an ESRC study on how victims, witnesses and offenders experience the Crown Court.

Background and Expertise

Mike Hough started his research career in the Home Office, and was a member of the team that started the British Crime Survey. Leaving in 1994, he set up an academic policy research centre. This was originally based at London South Bank University; it moved to King's College London in 2003, and to Birkbeck, University of London, in 2010.

Mike Hough's current research interests include: procedural justice theory and public trust in justice; public perceptions of crime and justice; policing and police legitimacy; sentencing and sentencing guidelines; offender rehabilitation and desistance (and its evaluation).

 

 

Publications

Public Knowledge and Opinion, Crime, and Criminal Justice

  • Author(s) Hough, M. and Roberts, J.V.
  • SubjectCourts, sentencing and attitudes to justice
  • Year2012
  • LocationOxford
  • Publisher/PublicationOxford University Press
  • Misc infoin M. Maguire, R. Morgan and R. Reiner (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Criminology (in press).

Researching trust in the police and trust in justice: A UK perspective

  • Author(s) Hough, M.
  • SubjectCourts, sentencing and attitudes to justice
  • Year2012
  • LocationLondon
  • Publisher/PublicationPolicing and Society
  • Misc infoIn press

Trust in Justice: Topline results from Round 5 of the European Social Survey

  • Author(s) Jackson, J., Hough, M., Bradford, B., Pooler, T., Hohl, K. and Kuha, J.
  • SubjectCourts, sentencing and attitudes to justice
  • Year2011
  • LocationLondon
  • Publisher/PublicationESS Central Coordinating Team, City University
  • Misc infoESS Topline Results Series 1, Issue 1
  • DownloadsTopline Results from Round 5 of the ESS.pdf

Situational crime prevention: the Home Office origins

  • Author(s)

    Mayhew, P. and Hough, M.

  • SubjectCrime and the community
  • Year2011
  • LocationAbingdon
  • Publisher/PublicationTaylor and Francis
  • Misc infoin N. Tilley and G. Farrell (eds.) The Reasoning Criminologist: Essays in Honour of Ronald V. Clarke

Measuring Public Attitudes to Criminal Justice

  • Author(s) Roberts, J.V., Feilzer, M. and Hough, M.
  • SubjectCourts, sentencing and attitudes to justice
  • Year2011
  • LocationLondon
  • Publisher/PublicationSage
  • Misc infoin D. Gadd, S. Karstedt and S. Messner (eds.) Sage Handbook of Criminological Research Methods

Developing European Indicators of Trust in Justice

  • Author(s) Jackson, J., Bradford, B., Hough, M., Kuha, J., Stares, S. R., Widdop, S., Fitzgerald, R., Yordanova, M. and Galev, T.
  • SubjectCourts, sentencing and attitudes to justice
  • Year2011
  • LocationUK
  • Publisher/PublicationEuropean Journal of Criminology. Vol 8 No. 4. pps 267–285.

Trust in justice and the procedural justice perspective

  • Author(s) Hough, M., Ruuskanen, E. and Jokinen, A.
  • SubjectCourts, sentencing and attitudes to justice
  • Year2011
  • LocationUK
  • Publisher/PublicationEuropean Journal of Criminology. Vol 8 No. 4. pps 267–285.

Personal mitigation: an empirical analysis in England and Wales

  • Author(s) Jacobson, J. and Hough, M.
  • SubjectCourts, sentencing and attitudes to justice
  • Year2011
  • LocationCambridge
  • Publisher/PublicationCambridge University Press
  • Misc infoin (ed.Roberts, J. V.) Mitigation and Aggravation at Sentencing

Exploring public attitudes to sentencing factors in England and Wales

  • Author(s)

    Roberts, J. and Hough, M.

  • SubjectCourts, sentencing and attitudes to justice
  • Year2011
  • LocationCambridge
  • Publisher/PublicationCambridge University Press
  • Misc infoin (ed.Roberts, J. V.) Mitigation and Aggravation at Sentencing

Personal Mitigation, Public Opinion and Sentencing: Guidelines in England and Wales

  • Author(s) Roberts, J., Hough, M. and Ashworth, A.
  • SubjectCourts, sentencing and attitudes to justice
  • Year2011
  • LocationUK
  • Publisher/PublicationCriminal Law Review, Issue 7, pps 524-530.