Professor Mike Hough

Mike Hough is Emeritus Professor at the School of Social Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London and previously University of London Professor of Criminal Policy from 2003 until 2016. He is a member of the Institute for Crime & Justice Policy Research (ICPR), which he founded and directed until his retirement in 2016. ICPR is one of the major UK centres for academic policy research on criminal justice. Mike’s research interests include: procedural justice theory; public perceptions of crime and punishment; crime measurement and crime trends; and sentencing. He has over 300 publications. He was President of the British Society of Criminology from 2008 until 2011. The European Society of Criminology awarded him the 2020 ESC European Criminology Award in recognition of his lifetime contribution to European criminology. The British Society of Criminology awarded him its 2021 Outstanding Achievement Award.

A list of Mike's main publications is available here