Department: Department of sociology|; Mannheim centre for criminology| ;Contact details: tel +44 (0)20 7076; r.hobbs@lse.ac.uk|
Dick Hobbs is Professor of Sociology with special reference to Criminology at the LSE. He worked in a number of occupations before training as a schoolteacher and working in London schools. He undertook postgraduate work at the LSE and the University of Surrey, and worked at the Centre of Criminological Research at the University of Oxford, and briefly at the Polytechnic of Central London before taking up a post at Durham University in 1990. He joined the LSE in September 2005.
His interests focus on urban ethnography, working class entrepreneurship, professional and organised crime, violence, the political economy of crime and the night-time economy. His most recent books include Bouncers: Violence and Governance in the Night-time Economy (Oxford, 2003), with Phil Hadfield, Stuart Lister and Simon Winlow, and The Sage Handbook of Fieldwork (Sage,2005), edited with Richard Wright.
Dick Hobbs is currently working on an ESRC funded project looking at female doorstaff in the night-time economy, and an EEC funded project on organised crime.