Christopher Hamerton

Dr Christopher Hamerton is a UK based academic lawyer, criminologist, and historian. Educated at the University of Southampton and Brasenose College, Oxford, he is a Barrister of the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, and an elected Fellow of both the Royal Anthropological Institute and the Linnean Society. Hamerton writes mainly on comparative, international, and globalised crime and criminal justice - his latest books include White-Collar Crime Online: Deviance, Organizational Behaviour and Risk (with Petter Gottschalk, Palgrave Macmillan), Privatising Criminal Justice: History, Neoliberal Penality and the Commodification of Crime (with Suzanne Hobbs, Routledge), and Devilry, Deviance, and Public Sphere: The Social Discovery of Moral Panic in Eighteenth Century London (Palgrave Macmillan). Forthcoming projects include monographs on lawyer roles in knowledge work, legitimacy and the corporate social licence, and online perspectives on child victimisation.

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