John Lea

John Lea är en left realist-kriminolog och professor, verksam vid Crime and Conflict Research Centre på Middlesex University i Storbritannien. Hans forskning kretsar kring polisarbete, organiserad brottslighet, företagsbrottslighet och den historiska utvecklingen av brott och rättsvårdande institutioner.

Lea tog en Bachelor of Science i nationalekonomi vid institutionen London School of Economics and Political Sicence på University of London, följt av en Master of Science i Economics and Social Policy.

Det främsta vetenskapliga bidraget Lea framfört är grundläggandet av skolbildningen Left Realism som han gjorde tillsammans med Jock Young, Roger Matthews, Richard Kinsey och Geoff Pearson.

Publikationer

• Fine, B., Kinsey, R., Lea, J., Picciotto, S. & Young, J. (eds) (1979) Capitalism and the Rule of Law, London: Hutchinson
• Lea, J. & Young, J. (1981) "The Riots in Britain 1981" In: Cowell, D., Jones, T. & Young, J. (eds) Policing the Riots, London: Junction
• Lea, J. & Young, J. (1982) "Race and Crime", Marxism Today, August pg.38-39
• Lea, J. & Young, J. (1984) What Is To Be Done About Law and Order — Crisis in the Eighties. Harmondsworth: Penguin. (Pluto Press revised edition: 1993) ISBN 0-7453-0735-3
• Kinsey, R., Lea, J. & Young, J. (1986). Losing the Fight Against Crime. London: Blackwell. ISBN 0-631-13721-1
• Lea, J. (1986) 'Police Racism: some theories and their policy implication' in Matthews, R. & Young, J. (eds) Confronting Crime, London: Sage Publications.
• Jones, T., Lea, J. & Young, J. (1987) Saving the Inner City: The First Report of the Broadwater Farm Survey, London: Middlesex Polytechnic
• Lea, J., Matthews, R. & Young, J. (1987) Law and Order: Five Years On, London: Middlesex Polytechnic, Centre for Criminology
• Lea, J. (1987). ”Left Realism: A Defense”. Contemporary Crises 11: sid. 357–370. 
• Lea, J., Jones, T., Woodhouse, T. & Young, J. (1989) Preventing Crime: The Hilldrop Environmental Improvement Survey, Enfield: Centre for Criminology, Middlesex Polytechnic
• Painter, K., Lea, J., Woodhouse, T. & Young, J. (1989) The Hammersmith and Fulham Crime and Policing Survey, London: Middlesex Polytechnic, Centre for Criminology
• Lea, J. (1999). ”'Social Crime Revisited'”. Theoretical Criminology 3 (3): sid. 307–325. doi:10.1177/1362480699003003003. 
• Lea, J. (2002). Crime and Modernity: Continuities in Left Realist Criminology. London: Sage. ISBN 0-8039-7557-0

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