Dick Hobbs

On leaving school Dick Hobbs worked in various clerical and laboring jobs, and in his twenties studied for O levels and an A level at night-school. He worked briefly as a schoolteacher before going to university in his thirties, and obtaining a Masters degree and a PhD at the London School of Economics and the University of Surrey respectively. During a long career as an academic he has worked at Oxford, Durham, Essex and Western Sydney universities, as well as the London School of Economics. Along the way he has received a number of prestigious prizes, including the Philip Abrams Prize (for Doing the Business), the IASOC Outstanding Publication Award (for Lush Life), and the Radzinowicz Prize (for Door Lore). In 2016 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the British Society of Criminology. He lives in London.