Research Profile
Mr Adam Edwards
Selected Publications
Books
Edwards, A. and Gill, P. (Eds.) (2003/2006) Transnational Organised Crime: Perspectives on global security. London: Routledge.
Hughes, G. and Edwards, A. (Eds.) (2002) Crime Control and Community: The new politics of public safety. Cullompton: Willan Publishing.
Journal Articles
‘Public Safety Regimes: Negotiated orders and political analysis in criminology’, Criminology and Criminal Justice, 12/4: 433-58, 2012 (with G. Hughes)
‘The Criminological Imagination by Jock Young’, Journal of Law and Society, 39/2: 312-16, 2012.
‘Third Wave Criminology: Guns, Crime and Social Order’, Criminology and Criminal Justice, 9/3: 379-397 (with J. Sheptycki, 2009)
‘Guns, Crime and Social Order’, Criminology and Criminal Justice, 9/3: 259 – 264 (with J. Sheptycki, 2009)
‘Researching the Organisation of Serious Crimes’, Criminology and Criminal Justice, 8/4: 363-388 (with M. Levi, 2008)
‘Preface: The Organisation of Serious Crimes’, Criminology and Criminal Justice, 8/4: 359 – 361 (with M. Levi, 2008).
‘Comparing the Governance of Safety in Europe: A Geo-Historical Approach’, Theoretical Criminology, 9/3: 345-363 (with G. Hughes, 2005)
‘Crime Control and Local Governance: the struggle for sovereignty in advanced liberal polities’, Contemporary Politics, 9/2: 203 – 17 (with K. Stenson, 2003)
‘The Politics of Transnational Organised Crime: Discourse, Reflexivity and the Narration of Threat’, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 4/2: 245-70 (with P. Gill, 2002)
‘Crime as Enterprise? The Case of Transnational Organised Crime’, Crime, Law and Social Change, 37/3: 203-23 (with P. Gill, 2002)
‘Community Governance, Crime Control and Local Diversity’, Crime Prevention and Community Safety: An International Journal, 2/3: 35-54 (with J. Benyon, 2000)
Book Chapters
‘Crime Prevention and Public Safety in Europe: Challenges for comparative criminology’, in S. Body-Gendrot, R. Levy and M. Hough (Eds.) The Handbook of European Criminology, London, Routledge (in print 2013, with G. Hughes and N. Lord).
‘The Organisation of Serious Crimes: Key Trends in Policy and Research’, in J. Rafailovich., S. Gabova and S. Popov (Eds.) Organized Crime, Civil Society and the Policy Process, Sofia, RiskMonitor Foundation and Open Society Institute, 2011
‘The Preventive Turn and the Promotion of Safer Communities in England and Wales’, in A. Crawford (Ed.) Crime Prevention Policies in Comparative Perspective, Cullompton, Willan Publishing ISBN: 978-1-84392-412-8 (with G. Hughes, 2009)
‘Inventing Community Safety’, in P. Carlen (Ed.) Imaginary Penalities, Cullompton, Willan Publishing, ISBN: 978-1-84392-3756 (with G. Hughes, 2008)
‘Resilient Fabians? Anti-Social Behaviour and Community Safety Work in Wales’, in P. Squires (Ed.) ASBO Nation: The criminalization of nuisance,, Bristol, Policy Press, ISBN: 978-1-84742-027-5 (with G. Hughes, 2008)
‘Crime Control and Community Safety in Milton Keynes, UK’, in K. Sessar et al (Eds.) GrossStadtangste – Anxious cities: Untersuchungen zu Unsicherheitsgefuhlen und Sicherheitspolitiken in europaischen Kommunen. Berlin: Lit Verlag, ISBN: 978-3-7000-0623-7 (with G. Hughes, R. Solly and M. Follett, 2007)
‘Governance’, in E. McLaughlin and J. Muncie (Eds.) The Sage Dictionary of Criminology, 2nd Ed. London: Sage, pp. 189 – 191, ISBN: 1-4129-1085-4 (sole-authored, 2006)
‘Crime Prevention in Context’, in N. Tilley (Ed.) The Handbook of Crime Prevention and Community Safety. Cullompton: Willan, pp. 14-34. ISBN: 1-84392-146-4 (with G. Hughes, 2005)
‘Transnational Organised Crime’, in J. Sheptycki and A. Wardak (Eds.) Transnational and Comparative Criminology in a Global Context. London: Glasshouse Press, pp. 211-225, ISBN: 1-90438-505-2 (sole-authored, 2005)
‘Policy Transfer in Local Crime Control: beyond naïve emulation’, in T. Newburn and R. Sparks (Eds.) Criminal Justice and Political Cultures. Willan: Cullomption, pp. 209-233, ISBN: 1-84392-054-9 (with K. Stenson, 2004).
‘After Transnational Organised Crime? The politics of public safety’, in A. Edwards and P. Gill (Eds.) Transnational Organised Crime: Perspectives on global security. London: Routledge, pp. 264-281. ISBN: 0-415-30095-9 (with P. Gill, 2003)
‘Introduction’, in A. Edwards and P. Gill (Eds.) Transnational Organised Crime: Perspectives on global security. London: Routledge, pp. 1-6, ISBN: 0-415-30095-9 (with P. Gill, 2003)
‘Learning from diversity: the strategic dilemmas of community-based crime control’, in G. Hughes and A. Edwards (Eds.) Crime Control and Community: The new politics of public safety. Cullompton: Willan Publishing, pp. 140-166, ISBN: 1-903240-54-9 (sole-authored, 2002)
‘Introduction: the community governance of crime control’, in G. Hughes and A. Edwards (Eds.) Crime Control and Community: The new politics of public safety. Cullompton: Willan Publishing, pp. 1-19: ISBN: 1-903240-54-9 (with G. Hughes, 2002)
‘Crime Control and Liberal Government: the “third way” and the return of the local’, in K. Stenson and R. Sullivan (Eds.) Crime, Risk and Security. Cullompton: Willan Publishing (with K. Stenson, 2001)
‘Networking and Crime Control at the Local Level’, in M. Ryan, S. Savage and D. Wall (Eds.) Policy Networks in Criminal Justice. London: Palgrave. (with J. Benyon, 2001)
‘Community Governance and Crime Prevention’, in G. Stoker (Ed) The New Management of Local Governance. London: Macmillan (with J. Benyon, 1999)
‘Crime and Public Order’, in P. Dunleavy et al (Eds.) Developments in British Politics 5. London: Macmillan, ISBN: 0-333-67776-5 (with J. Benyon, 1997)
‘Reflections on Recent Developments in ‘‘Social Control’’’, in W. Hammerschick et al (eds) Jahrbuck fur Rechts und Kriminalsoziologie, 1995. Baden Baden: Nomos (with R. Matthews, 1996)