Professor Kevin Stenson BSc (Hons), PhD

Part Time Professor of Criminology

Contact k.stenson@londonmet.ac.uk

Kevin is part time Professor of Criminology in the faculty. He achieved his PhD at Brunel University, was previously Professor of Criminology at Buckinghamshire New University and Middlesex University and performed a number of senior management roles, including director of research; he has taken eight students to successful completion as a PhD supervisor. He served as Chair of the Southern Branch of the British Society of Criminology and on the BSC Executive Committee, is a co-author of the UK Quality Assurance Agency subject benchmarks for criminology and has served as external examiner for undergraduate and post-graduate programmes and PhD theses in several universities. He is also Honorary Professor of Criminology at the University of Kent and Visiting Fellow at the Department of Sociology and the Mannheim Centre at the London School of Economics.

Though his main interests are in criminology, Kevin has undertaken a range of externally funded, policy oriented, empirical research projects in the social sciences. This has included: studies of young people’s perceptions and uses of public spaces, social work, probation and policing practice (including stop and search and community policing); the link between inter-ethnic conflict and policing; urban development and social order; studies in social housing neighbourhoods in the Thames Valley of the links between deprivation, crime and other social problems; the development and evaluation of community safety policies and practices; and parent support programmes. His enduring theoretical interest has been in exploring the new forms of liberal governance that have emerged since the rise of New Right ideologies and administrations, with particular reference to the politics of crime control. He emphasises a need to counterbalance an interest in `governance from above` by state, NGO and major commercial agencies, with a focus on `governance from below`, by a host of networks and agencies from religious and friendship groups to `organised` crime, paramilitary and `terrorist` organisations.

He is currently involved in a large grant study (£600k) entitled `Negotiating Identity: young people’s perspectives on faith values, community norms and social cohesion` organised from Brunel University by Prof. Nicola Madge. This is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Economic and Social Research Council. He has produced a range of official reports, advised policy makers and published widely in leading journals. His work has been translated into other languages and he has also been invited to present papers in a range of countries and worked with many international scholars.

Selected Publications

• Lippert, R. and Stenson, K (2010 forthcoming) `Advanced Governmentality Studies , Lessons from Social Constructionism `, in Theoretical Criminology, 14, 4.
• Stenson, K. (Forthcoming, 2010) `Risk, Crime and Governance` in Martine Herzog-Evans (ed.), Transnational Criminology Manual (volume 1) Nijmegen: Wolf Legal, Publishers.
• Fletcher, R and K. Stenson (2009) `Governance and the London Metropolitan Police Service`, Policing, A Journal of Policy and Practice. 3 (1) 12-21. Special issue on policing and governance, edited by Kevin Stenson.
• Stenson, K. (2008) `Governing the Local: Sovereignty, Social Governance and Community Safety`. Social Work and Society (on line), 6, 1: (21 pages) –Special issue on De-and Re-Territorialisation of “the Social”` - commentary on the work of Kevin Stenson (www.socwork.net/2008/)
• Stenson, K. (2008) `Beyond Kantianism: Responses to Critiques` Social Work and Society (on line), 6, 1: (7 pages) –Special issue on De-and Re-Territorialisation of “the Social”` commentary on the work of Kevin Stenson (www.socwork.net/2008/)
• “Surveillance and Sovereignty” (2008), in M. Deflem (ed) Surveillance and Governance: Crime Control and Beyond” Sociology of Crime, law and Deviance, Volume 10, Bingley: Emerald.
• Lea, J. and Stenson, K. (2007) `Security, Sovereignty, and Non-State Governance “From Below”`Canadian Jnl. of Law and Society, 22, 2: 9-28. Special issue of journal on `Governance from Below` edited by Kevin Stenson and Randy Lippert.
• Stenson,K. (2007)`Framing the Governance of Urban Space`, in: - R. Atkinson and G. Helms (eds) Securing an Urban Renaissance: crime, community and British urban policy Bristol: The Policy Press
• Stenson.K. (2007) “Das Lokale regierung. Den Kampf um Souveränität im Ländlichen England” (2007), in F. Kessl and H-U Otto (eds) Territorialisierung des Sozialen, Regieren uber soziale Nahraume. Opladen and Farmington Hills: Verlag Barbara Budrich
• Stenson K and Waddington, P.A.J. (2007) Macpherson, Police Stops and Institutional Racism in M. Rowe (ed) Policing Beyond Macpherson Cullompton: Willan.
• Stenson, K. (2005) "Sovereignty, Biopolitics and Community Safety in Britain" Theoretical Criminology (special Issue on community safety in Europe) 9,(3) 265-287.
• Waddington, P.A.J. Stenson, K and Don, D. (2004) "In proportion: race and police stop and search" British Journal of Criminology 44,6: 889-914.
• Stenson, K. and Edwards, A. (2004) 'Policy Transfer in Local Crime Control: Beyond Naive Emulation', in T. Newburn and R. Sparks (eds) Criminal Justice and Political Cultures, national and international dimensions of crime control, pp.209-233. Cullompton:Willan.
• Stenson, K. and Edwards, A. (2003) 'Crime control and local governance: the struggle for sovereignty in advanced liberal polities', Contemporary Politics Vo1.9, 2: 203-218.
• 'Community Safety in Middle England - the local politics of crime control'. In G. Hughes and A. Edwards (eds) Crime Control and Community, the new politics of public safety, pp.109-139. Cullompton: Willan 2002.
• Stenson, K., and Sullivan, R.K. (eds) (2001) "Crime, Risk and Justice, the politics of crime control in liberal democracies". Cullompton: Willan
• Stenson, K. (2000) "Someday Our Prince Will Come: zero tolerance policing and liberal government" in T. Hope and R. Sparks (eds) "Crime, Insecurity and Order" Routledge.
• Stenson, K (1999) "Crime Control, Governmentality and Sovereignty", in Russell Smandych (ed) Governable Places, readings on governmentality and crime control, Aldershot: Dartmouth/Ashgate (1999).
• Stenson K. and Watt, P. (1999) `Governmentality and “The Death of the Social?”: a discourse analysis of local government texts in the South east of England, in Urban Studies, 36:1:189-201 spring 1999.
• Stenson, K. (1998) "Beyond Histories of the Present", Economy and Society, 27:4:333-352
• Stenson, K. (1998) "The Displacement of Social Policy as crime Control" in S. Hanninen (ed) The Displacement of social Policy Jyvaskyla, Finland: University Of Jyvaskyla Press.
• Watt, P. and Stenson, K. (1998) "The Street: 'Its a bit dodgy around there', safety, danger, ethnicity and young people's use of public space. in T. Skelton and G. Valentine (eds) Cool Places, Geographies of Youth Cultures London: Routledge.
  
• Stenson, K. (1995) "Communal Security as Government - the British Experience", in W. Hammerschick et al (ed) Jahrbuch Fur Rechts Und Kriminalsoziologie, Baden: Nomos, 1995
• Stenson, K. (1993) "Community Policing as A Governmental Technology", Economy and Society, 22,3: 373-89.
• Stenson, K. and Cowell, D. (eds) (1991) "The Politics of Crime Control", Sage: Beverly Hills/London (includes K. Stenson, `Making Sense of Crime Control`).