Mike King

Mike joined us as Research Professor in Criminal Justice in 2004 from the University of Leicester and in 2009 he was awarded an Emeritus Professorship.

Mike has researched and published widely in the areas of public order policing and policing change, both in the UK and internationally.

His recent work includes King, M. (2013) 'Birmingham revisited - causal differences between the riots of 2011 and 2005?', Policing & Society, 23(1):26-45; King, M. and Waddington, D. (2013) 'Editorial: Riots and social protest in an age of austerity', Policing & Society (2013), 23(1):1-5; a co-authored chapter with David Waddington 'Contemporary French and British Urban Riots: An Exploration of the Underlying Political Dimensions' in Seferiades, S. & Johnston, H. (eds) Violent Protest, Contentious Politics and the Neoliberal State (2012, Ashgate) and a co-edited book with David Waddington and Fabien Jobard Rioting in the UK and France: A comparative analysis (2009, Willan/Routledge).