Professor Andrew Millie
Professor And Head Of Discipline In Social Policy And Criminology
Biography
Professional biography
I am Professor of Criminology and Head of Discipline for Social Policy and Criminology. Prior to joining the Open University in 2024, I was Professor of Criminology and Associate Head of the School of Law, Criminology and Policing at Edge Hill University. Before that I worked at various institutions including the University of Glasgow, Loughborough University and King's College London. I'm a graduate of Swansea University, having gained a BA in geography in 1991, and then a PhD on urban crime in 1997.
I'm Editor of the Bristol University Press book series New Horizons in Criminology and I'm on the executive of the British Society of Criminology - currently Chair of their Regional Groups and Specialist Networks Committee. I'm on the Editorial Board of the journal Crime Prevention and Community Safetty, and I've previously been on the Editorial Board of the British Journal of Criminology. I have also been an Editor for the journal Urban Studies.
Research interests
My research is interdisciplinary and pushes criminological boundaries by drawing on philosophy and theology to critically question western penal orthodoxy and the history of criminological thought. My current work looks at alternative meanings of core criminological concepts of justice and punishment. I have also an international reputation for critical research on policing - including being part of a recently completed project on Visible Policing (ESRC Grant Reference: ES/R011885/1). Building on earlier work in urban geography I additionally publish on ‘aesthetic criminology’ and consider the role of taste in dictating criminalisation.
Publications
Book
Criminology and Public Theology: On Hope, Mercy and Restoration (2020)
Philosophical Criminology (2016)
Contemporary Issues in Law Enforcement and Policing (2008)
Anti-Social Behaviour Strategies: Finding a Balance (2005)
Assessing the impact of the Reducing Burglary Initiative in southern England and Wales (2004)
The Decision to Imprison: Sentencing and the Prison Population (2003)
Book Chapter
Christian Hope and Criminal Justice (2024)
Researching Visible Policing (2024)
The Abstract Police and Occupational Culture (2022)
Introduction: Public Criminology Meets Public Theology (2021)
The beliefs and values of police volunteers (2018)
Reassurance Policing and Signal Crimes (2014)
The aesthetics of anti-social behaviour (2014)
What are the police for?: Re-thinking policing post-austerity (2014)
Replacing the ASBO: An opportunity to stem the flow into the Criminal Justice System (2013)
Crime, anti-social behaviour and education: A critical review (2011)
Interview with Ken Moroney, Commissioner of New South Wales Police, Australia (2009)
Education and training in four countries: Getting rule of law messages across (2008)
Why tackle anti-social behaviour? (2008)
Tackling anti-social behaviour and regenerating neighbourhoods (2007)
Reassurance en de nieuwe gemeenschapsgerichte politiezorg (2007)
Understanding the growth in the prison population in England and Wales (2005)
Action and reaction: Delivering local burglary reduction projects (2004)
From paper to action: Setting up local burglary reduction projects (2004)
Digital Artefact
Turning away from retribution: How criminology might find inspiration in Christian theology (2020)
Journal Article
Policing and Social Media: Exploring Police Digital Visibility (2025)
Police recruits, moral judgements and an empathetic policing (2024)
Police station meaning, closure and (in)visibility (2024)
The Lord’s Prayer, forgiveness, and criminal (in)justice (2023)
Visible policing: uniforms and the (re)construction of police occupational identity (2023)
Street Skateboarding and the Aesthetic Order of Public Spaces (2022)
Maintaining police-citizen relations on social media during the COVID-19 pandemic (2022)
Everyday moral judgements of anti-social behaviour (2021)
Crimes of the Senses: Yarn Bombing and Aesthetic Criminology (2019)
Citizens in policing: The lived reality of being a Police Support Volunteer (2019)
Introduction: Contemporary policing and non-warranted volunteering (2019)
Urban interventionism as a challenge to aesthetic order: Towards an aesthetic criminology (2017)
The case for a narrower focus to policing (2014)
The policing task and the expansion (and contraction) of British policing (2013)
Police Stations, Architecture and Public Reassurance (2012)
Re-imagining Policing Post-Austerity (2012)
Community safety politics and policy in Europe (2011)
Value judgments and criminalization (2011)
Editorial: Reflections on an English summer of rioting and looting (2011)
Whatever Happened to Reassurance Policing? (2010)
Moral politics, moral decline and anti-social behaviour (2010)
“It’s time to move beyond the ASBO”: The Coalition and anti-social behaviour (2010)
Anti-social behaviour in British cities (2008)
Vulnerability and risk: some lessons from the UK Reducing Burglary Initiative (2008)
Anti-social behaviour, behavioural expectations and an urban aesthetic (2008)
Crime as an issue during the 2005 UK general election (2008)
Looking for anti-social behaviour (2007)
Applying Reassurance Policing: Is it “Business as Usual”? (2006)
Identifying and disseminating ‘good’ community safety practice: a problem solving approach (2006)
Anti-social behaviour: Concerns of minority and marginalised Londoners (2006)
Finding a balance for tackling anti-social behaviour (2005)
Reducing burglary by crackdown and consolidation (2005)
Bridging the Gap: Understanding Reassurance Policing (2005)
Reassurance policing in practice: Views from the shop floor (2004)
Does Tougher Enforcement Lead to Lower Reconviction? (2004)
Sentencer confidence in probation: A good job in difficult circumstances? (2004)
[Book Review] Rob I. Mawby Burglary. Portland, OR: Willan Publishing, 2001 (2003)
Understanding the growth in the prison population in England and Wales (2003)
The decision to imprison (2003)
Exploring safety concerns in the night-time city: revitalising the evening economy (2000)
Report
New Recruits in the Police: A study of attitudes, values and beliefs (2018)
New Recruits in the Police: Summary (2018)
Volunteering within the Police: Summary (2016)
The Drivers of Perceptions of Anti-Social Behaviour (2010)
Anti-social behaviour strategies: finding a balance (summary) (2005)
Street Crime in London: Deterrence, Disruption and Displacement (2005)
Tackling Anti-Social Behaviour: A Critical Review (2005)
Rape and Indecent Assault: Incidence and Service Provision in Southwark (2003)
The decision to imprison: Key findings (2003)
Investigating Links Between Probation Enforcement and Reconviction (2003)
Reducing Burglary Initiative Project Summary: Yew Tree, Sandwell (2003)
Reducing Burglary Initiative Project Summary: Stirchley, Birmingham (2003)
Employee Volunteering and the Special Constabulary: A Review of Employer Policies (2002)
Shopper Security and the City Centre Shopping Environment: The Cases of Swansea and Cardiff (1994)
Reducing Burglary Initiative Project Summary: Fordbridge, Solihull
Thesis
Crime in the city centre: Patterns and perception of risk. A case study of Swansea (1997)
