Faculty Member, School of Social Sciences
Reader in Criminology
School of Social Science
About
Dr Michael "Mike" Sutton is the originator of the Market Reduction Approach to theft and has numerous publications on the subject of stolen goods markets and how to reduce them with an aim to reduce theft.
Mike is founding General Editor of the open access Internet Journal of Criminology. He is a winner of the British Journal of Criminology Prize for virtual ethnographic research into a pan-European hacking group - judged to have "...most significantly contributed to the knowledge and understanding of criminology and criminal justice issues' in 1998/99.
Mike worked for 14 years as Senior Research Officer (criminology) in the UK Government's Home Office where he conducted research on fines, evaluated the Safer Cities Programme and conducted and published his first research on hi tech crime and stolen goods markets. He is currently Reader in Criminology at Nottingham Trent University (UK).
Sutton has numerous scholarly publications in the field of hate crimes, bias and prejudice, including a mythbusting UK Government report and guide on the best use of media in reducing ‘racial’ prejudice. He is founding director of the Nottingham Centre for the Study and Reduction of Hate Crimes.
In 2010 Sutton engaged in some myth-busting research in the field of nutrition, which led to the discovery of the sociological concept of Braced Myths . In 2011 he identified two criminological Braced Myths regarding beat policing. Mike is keen to learn of any further examples from any field of knowledge.
Mike Sutton teaches Crime Reduction and also Hi-Tech crime. He recently published a US Department of Justice international COPS Office guide for policing stolen goods markets and is currently writing a book on the role of stolen goods markets in generating theft.
Sutton's MRA is currently recommended good crime reduction and policing practice on websites hosted by the US Government's Depart of Justice, and on those run by the British Government's Home Office. Several examples of his published work are stored in the UK National Archive. His MRA is also recommended by the Australian Government's Institute of Criminology and New Zealand's Ministry of Justice.
A full profile of Mike's work and his impact on policy can be found here: http://www.bestthinking.com/thinkers/science/social_sciences/sociology
Mike's academic citation score can be found here: http://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?hl=en&user=4pAMC9UAAAAJ&view_op=
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