Autor/-in: Dick Hobbs

Professor Dick Hobbs was born in Plaistow, East London. After leaving school and working in many clerical and labouring jobs, he attended night school before working briefly as a schoolteacher. As a mature student, he then gained qualifications from the London School of Economics and the University of Surrey before embarking on an academic career that took in the Polytechnic of Central London, the universities of Oxford, Durham, Essex and Western Sydney as well as the LSE. During his career, Dick Hobbs received a number of awards for his research on criminal life, including the Abrams Prize, the Radzinowicz Prize and the IASSOC Outstanding Publication Award. In 2016 he received the Outstanding Award from the British Society of Criminology. He lives in London with his family.