Professor Ronnie Lippens

Title: Professor of Criminology
Phone: (+44) 01782 7 33263
Email:
Location: CBB1.010
Role: Director of the MA-MRes programme in Criminology and Criminal Justice.
Contacting me: Office hours - posted on my door or by appointment
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Born in 1962, I was educated at Kortrijk Polytechnic & University College, Universiteit Leuven, and Universiteit Gent (all in Belgium), obtaining a PhD in Criminology from the last named in 1998. I then moved to Keele in 1999 where, since 2006, I’m a Professor of Criminology. I am married to Kathleen Vandenberghe, a hospice counsellor.

Professor Ronnie Lippens' CV

Latterly my research interests have focused also on the imaginary of justice, law and order, as expressed in e.g. novels and paintings. This has led me to study and analyse art and literature in quite some detail. I have published numerous contributions (in Dutch as well as in English) on those topics in a wide variety of venues. I’m currently working on a closer analysis of the emergence of forms of governance in what could be called prophetic painting.

 

Selected Publications

  • Lippens RLG. 2012. Law, Code and Governance in prophetic Painting. Notes on Early, High and Late Modern Forms of Life and Governance. In Law, Culture and Visual Studies. Wagner A and Sherwin RK (Eds.).
  • Lippens RLG. 2012. Radical sovereignty and Control Society: Images of late modern sovereignty in Rebeyrolle's "Le Cyclope". Crime, Media, Culture: an international journal, vol. 8(1), 1-16. doi>
  • Lippens RLG. 2011. Mystical Sovereignty and the Emergence of Control Society. In Crime, Governance and Existential Predicaments. Hardie-Bick J and Lippens R (Eds.). Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Lippens RLG. 2011. Jackson Pollock's Flight from Law and Code: Theses on Responsive Choice and the Dawn of Control Society. International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, vol. 24(1), 117-138. doi>
  • Lippens RLG. 2009. Gerard David's Cambyses and Early Modern Governance: Notes on the geology of Skin and the Butchery of Law. Law and Humanities, vol. 3(1), 1-24.

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Journal Articles

  • Lippens RLG. 2012. Radical sovereignty and Control Society: Images of late modern sovereignty in Rebeyrolle's "Le Cyclope". Crime, Media, Culture: an international journal, vol. 8(1), 1-16. doi>
  • Lippens RLG. 2011. Jackson Pollock's Flight from Law and Code: Theses on Responsive Choice and the Dawn of Control Society. International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, vol. 24(1), 117-138. doi>
  • Lippens RLG. 2009. Gerard David's Cambyses and Early Modern Governance: Notes on the geology of Skin and the Butchery of Law. Law and Humanities, vol. 3(1), 1-24.
  • Lippens RLG. 2008. Whiter Critical Criminology? A Contemplation on Existential Hybridization. Critical Criminology, vol. 16(2), 145-156. doi>

Chapters

  • Lippens RLG. 2012. Law, Code and Governance in prophetic Painting. Notes on Early, High and Late Modern Forms of Life and Governance. In Law, Culture and Visual Studies. Wagner A and Sherwin RK (Eds.).
  • Lippens RLG. 2011. Mystical Sovereignty and the Emergence of Control Society. In Crime, Governance and Existential Predicaments. Hardie-Bick J and Lippens R (Eds.). Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Lippens RLG. 2009. Towards Existential Hybribization? A Contemplation on the Being and Nothingness of Critical Criminology. In Existentialist Criminology. Crewe D and Lippens R (Eds.). Routledge Cavendish.

I usually teach modules about criminological theories or perspectives, as well as modules of a more philosophical nature. These currently include UG modules such as:

Crime and Justice in a Global Context

and

State Crimes and Crimes against Humanity

You may, by the way, wish to have a look at what might probably be the thinnest textbook in the criminological domain:

  • LIPPENS, R. (2009) A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Introduction to Studying Criminology. London: Sage Publications

I also regularly contribute to the MA-MRes programme in Criminology and Criminal Justice.