Mr Steven Hutchinson — Birkbeck, University of London

Overview

Biography

Steven joined the School of Law at Birkbeck in 2015 and is currently Programme Director for the BSc in Criminology and Criminal Justice, and Programme Director for the Certificate in Criminology. He joined Birkbeck from the School of Law at the University of Leeds, where he was a member of the Centre for Criminal Justice Studies (CCJS) and the Security & Justice Research Group.

Steven is a member of the British Society of Criminology (BSC), the European Society of Criminology (ESC), the WhiteRose Network on Public and Private Policing, the British International Studies Association (BISA), and the Crime, Science and Politics Group of the ESC.

Research

Research overview

Steven's current research explores different theories and models of intelligence, security and risk. He is particularly interested in the way in which different techniques coalesce around certain problems, including (organized) crime, terrorism, and other security related threats. Steven recently co-edited an interdisciplinary Special Issue of the British Journal of Criminology which brought together leading security scholars from law, criminology, politics, sociology and international relations.

Supervision and teaching

Teaching

Teaching modules

Security, Risk and Governance (LACN008S7)
Contemporary Criminological Theory (LACN021S7)

Publications

Article

Crawford, A. and Hutchinson, Steven (2016) Mapping the contours of ‘Everyday Security’: time, space and emotion. British Journal of Criminology 56 (6), pp. 1184-1202. ISSN 0007-0955.
Hutchinson, Steven (2016) The future(s) of security studies. British Journal of Criminology 56 (6), pp. 1049-1067. ISSN 0007-0955.
Hutchinson, Steven (2014) Intelligence, reason of state and the art of governing risk and opportunity in early modern Europe. Economy and Society 43 (3), pp. 370-400. ISSN 0308-5147.
Hutchinson, Steven (2010) Proceeds of crime: a look at the legal landscape. Frontline Security 5 (2), pp. 20-23.
Hutchinson, Steven and O'Malley, P (2007) A crime-terror nexus? thinking on some of the links between terrorism and criminality. Studies in Conflict and Terrorism 30 (12), pp. 1095-1107. ISSN 1057-610X.
O'Malley, P. and Hutchinson, Steven (2007) Converging corporatization? police management, police unionism, and the transfer of business principles. Police Practice and Research: An International Journal 8 (2), pp. 159-174. ISSN 1561-4263.
O'Malley, P. and Hutchinson, Steven (2007) Reinventing prevention: why did crime prevention develop so late?. British Journal of Criminology 47 (3), pp. 373-389. ISSN 0007-0955.
Hutchinson, Steven (2006) Countering catastrophic criminology: reform, punishment, and the modern liberal compromise. Punishment and Society: the international journal of penology 8 (4), pp. 443-467. ISSN 1462-4745.
Hutchinson, Steven and O'Connor, D. (2005) Policing 'the new commons': corporate security governance on a mass private property in Canada. Policing and Society 15 (2), pp. 125-144. ISSN 1043-9463.

Book Section

Hutchinson, Steven and O'Malley, P. (2019) Discipline and governmentality. In: Deflem, M. (ed.) The Handbook of Social Control. Wiley Handbooks in Criminology and Criminal Justice. Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell. ISBN 9781119372349.
Hutchinson, Steven and O'Malley, P. (2014) A crime-terror nexus? thinking on some of the links between terrorism and criminality. In: Sheptycki, J. (ed.) Transnational Organized Crime. London, UK: Sage. ISBN 9781446274040.
O'Malley, P. and Hutchinson, Steven (2012) Converging corporatisation? police management, police unionism and the transfer of business principles. In: Palmer, D. and Berlin, Mike and Das, D. (eds.) Global Environment of Policing. New York, USA: CRC Press. pp. 237-254. ISBN 9781420065909.