Professor Tim Hope
School of Criminology , Education,
Sociology and Social Work
Institute of Law , Politics and Justice
Keele University
Staffordshire , ST5 5BG, UK
Contact Details:
Phone: +44 (0)1782 584166
Email: t.j.hope@crim.keele.ac.uk
Background and research interests:
I have been Professor of Criminology at Keele University since 1997. Before coming to Keele in 1994, I held positions at the Universities of Manchester and Missouri-St. Louis, CACI Ltd., and as a Principal Research Officer at the Home Office Research and Planning Unit. I was Director of the Economic and Social Research Council Crime and Social Order Research Programme (1993-1997). I am a member of the Groupe européen de recherche sur les normativités (GERN), and an academic adviser to the International Centre for the Prevention of Crime (ICPC), the European Forum for Urban Safety (EFUS) and the Neighbourhood Policing Programme (Home Office/ACPO). I have a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of London.
My research interests lie in the fields of victimology; communities, crime prevention and community safety; and evidence, policy-making, and evaluation research methodology in criminal justice. I have published widely and internationally on these topics, including the USA, Canada, Germany, Italy, France and Poland. I have extensive experience of analysing crime victimisation surveys and crime statistics, including the British Crime Survey. I have directed large-scale programme evaluation studies, including the Priority Estates Project and the Home Office Reducing Burglary Initiative, and have carried out research for the UK Statistics Commission on users’ perspectives on crime statistics. I have also given evidence to the House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee on government use of evidence in policy-making.
My current research interests lie in understanding both the macro-sociological dynamics of crime, via the analysis of crime trends, and the micro-level dynamics of crime victimisation and offending, via the modelling of survey data. I am also concerned with the relationship between criminological research, policy-making and evaluation.
Recent publications include:
T. Hope (in press, July 2007). ‘The social epidemiology of crime victims’. In S. Walklate (Ed.) Handbook on Victims and Victimology. Uffculme, Devon: Willan.
T. Hope (in press, June 2007). ‘The Distribution of Household Property Crime Victimisation: Insights from the British Crime Survey’ In M. G. Maxfield and M. Hough (Eds.), Surveying Crime in the 21 st Century. Crime Prevention Studies Vol. 22, Uffculme, Devon: Willan/ New York: Criminal Justice Press.
T. Hope (2006). ‘Mass Consumption, Mass Predation - Private Versus Public Action? The Case Of Domestic Burglary In England And Wales’. In R. Lévy, L. Mucchielli, R. Zaubermann (Eds.) C rime et Insécurité: un demi-siècle de bouleversements – m élanges pour et avec Philippe Robert . Paris: editions l’Harmattan .
T. Hope (2005). ‘Pretend it doesn’t work: the ‘anti-social’ bias in the Maryland Scientific Methods Scale’. European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research, 11, 275-296.
T. Hope (2005). ‘The new local governance of community safety in England and Wales’. Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice, 47 (2), 367-387
T. Hope (2004). ‘Pretend it works: evidence and governance in the evaluation of the Reducing Burglary Initiative’. Criminal Justice, 4 (3), 287-308.
T. Hope and A. Trickett (2004). ‘La distribution de la victimation dans la population’, Déviance et Société , 28 (3), 385-404.
T. Hope and A. Trickett (2004) ‘Angst Essen Seele Auf…but it keeps away the burglars! Private security, neighbourhood watch and the social reaction to crime’. Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, Sonderheft 43, 441-468.
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