Professor Bill Dixon

Title: Head of School
Phone: 01782 (7)33546
Email:
Location: CBB1.023
Role: Head of School
Contacting me: Office Hours - Monday 12.30 - 1.30pm and Friday 2.30 - 3.30pm.
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Bill graduated with a BA in Law from Oxford University, where he studied at Worcester College. He has an MA in Criminal Justice from Brunel University and completed his PhD on police accountability in London (also at Brunel) in 1999. After working in the voluntary sector and in local government, Bill has held academic posts at Brunel University and the University of Cape Town. He arrived at Keele in 2001 as a Lecturer in Criminology and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2007 and then Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice in 2013.

Bill has long-standing research interests in police accountability and community policing in both the UK and South Africa. His recent work has been on crime, crime control and the discipline of criminology in post-apartheid South Africa with particular emphasis on the role of policy transfer in police reform, and the relationship between crime prevention and other aspects of social policy. After completing an ESRC-funded study of racially motivated violence and harassment in North Staffordshire, Bill has also been involved in adapting the methods used in that research for use by activists in South Africa.

Future plans include further work on the data generated by the North Staffordshire study and on the intersections between ‘race’ and crime in contemporary South Africa.

Selected Publications

  • Dixon WJ. 2013. The Aetiological Crisis in South African Criminology. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology. doi>
  • Gadd D and Dixon B. 2011. Losing the Race: Thinking Psychosocially About Racially Motivated Crime. Karnac Books.
  • DIXON W. 2010. Criminalizing social policy and socializing crime prevention in post-apartheid South Africa.
  • Gadd D and DIXON WJ. 2009. Posing the 'Why' question: understanding the perpetration of racially motivated violence and harrassment. In Understanding and defining hate crime. Levin B and Perry B (Eds.). (vol. 1). Westport CT: Praeger.
  • DIXON WJ. 2008. 'A country at war with itself: South Africa's crisis of crime' by Antony Altbeker.

Full Publications List show

Books

  • Gadd D and Dixon B. 2011. Losing the Race: Thinking Psychosocially About Racially Motivated Crime. Karnac Books.
  • Dixon, WJ, Van DSE. 2004. Justice Gained? Crime and Crime Control in South Africa's Transition. Willan Publishing.

Journal Articles

  • Dixon WJ. 2013. The Aetiological Crisis in South African Criminology. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology. doi>
  • DIXON W. 2007. Globalising the local: a genealogy of sector policing in South Africa. International Relations, vol. Vol. 21 issue 2(2), 163-182. doi>
  • DIXON WJ. 2006. Development, crime prevention and social policy in post-apartheid South Africa. Critical Social Policy, vol. 26(1), 169-191. doi>
  • DIXON WJ and Gadd D. 2006. Getting the message? 'New' labour and the criminalization of hate. Criminology and Criminal Justice, vol. 6(3), 309-328.
  • DIXON WJ. 2004. In search of interactive globalisation: Critical criminology in South Africa's transition. Crime, Law and Social Change, vol. 41(4), 359-384. doi>
  • Dixon W. 2004. Community policing: 'cherry pie' or melktert?' . Society in Transition: Journal of the South African Sociological Association.
  • DIXON WJ. 2001. Exclusive societies: towards a critical criminology of post-apartheid South Africa. Society in Transition, Journal of the South African Sociological Association., vol. 32(2), 205-227.
  • Dixon WJ. 2001. From cafeteria to a la carte: The Law Commission's new sentencing framework. South African Journal of Criminal Justice.

Chapters

  • Gadd D and DIXON WJ. 2009. Posing the 'Why' question: understanding the perpetration of racially motivated violence and harrassment. In Understanding and defining hate crime. Levin B and Perry B (Eds.). (vol. 1). Westport CT: Praeger.
  • DIXON WJ. 2004. Cosmetic crime prevention. In Justice gained? Crime and crime control in South Africa's transition. Dixon B and van DSE (Eds.). Cape Town and Devon: Cullompton and UCT press/Willan publishing.
  • Dixon B. 2004. Introduction Justice Gained? Crime, Crime Control and Criminology in Transition. In Justice Gained? Crime and Crime Control in South Africa's Transition. Dixon, B, Spuy VD, E (Eds.). UCT Press, Cape Town.
  • Dixon B. 2002. Not rocket science: evaluating crime prevention. In Crime Prevention Partnerships: Lessons from Practice. Pelser E (Ed.). Institute for Security Studies, Pretoria.

Other

  • DIXON W. 2010. Criminalizing social policy and socializing crime prevention in post-apartheid South Africa.
  • DIXON WJ. 2008. 'A country at war with itself: South Africa's crisis of crime' by Antony Altbeker.
  • DIXON WJ. 2007. 'The dirty work of democracy: A year on the streets with SAPS' by Antony Altbeker.
  • DIXON WJ. 2006. Pan-African issues in crime and justice.
  • DIXON WJ, van der Spuy E, van Zyl Smit D. 2005. Justice gained? A reply to Naude.
  • Dixon, W, Rauch, J. 2004. Sector Policing: Origins and Prospects.
  • Dixon B and Irving B. 2002. Hotspotting: Turning Police Theory into Practice in Thames Valley and Northumbria.
  • Dixon W and Johns LM. 2001. Gangs, Pagad and the State: Vigilantism and Revenge Violence in the Western Cape.
  • DIXON WJ. 2001. Lockdown America: Police and prisons in the age of crisis by Christian Parenti.