Roger Matthews

Roger Matthews is a British criminologist. He is currently Professor of Criminology at London South Bank University.

Matthews is one of the key figures in left realism, a criminological critique of both the dominant administrative criminology and the left idealism associated with the criminologists around the National Deviancy Conference

Publications

1980's

*Matthews, R. & Young, J. (eds) (1986) "Confronting Crime", London: Sage Publications
*Lea, J., Matthews, R. & Young, J. (1987) "Law and Order: Five Years On", London: Middlesex Polytechnic, Centre for Criminology
*Matthews, R. (1988) "Informal Justice?", London: Sage
*Matthews, R. (1988) "Privatizing Criminal Justice", London: Sage
*Matthews, R. (1988) 'Alternatives to and in Prison: a realist approach' In: Carlen, P. & Cook, D. eds. "Paying For Crime", Milton Keynes: Open University Press

1990's

*Matthews, R. & Young, J. (eds) (1992) "Rethinking Criminology: The Realist Debate," (Sage Contemporary Criminology) London: Sage. ISBN 0-8039-8621-1
*Matthews, R. & Young, J. (eds) (1992) "Issues in Realist Criminology", (Sage Contemporary Criminology) London: Sage. ISBN 0-8039-8624-6
*Matthews, R. and P.Francis (eds) (1996) "Prisons 2000: An International Perspective on the Current State and Future of Imprisonment." Macmillan. ISBN 0-333-64480-8
*Matthews, R. (1999) "Doing Time: An Introduction to the Sociology of Imprisonment". Macmillan/Palgrave. ISBN 0-333-75231-7.

2000's

*Matthews, R. and Pitts, J. (eds) (2001) "Crime, Disorder and Community Safety: A New Agenda?" Routledge.ISBN 0-415-24231-2
*Matthews, R. (2002) "Armed Robbery". Willan. ISBN 1-903240-60-3
*Matthews, R. & Young, J. (2003) "The New Politics of Crime and Punishment", Willan Publishing. ISBN 1-903240-91-3
*Matthews, R. (2005) 'The myth of punitiveness', "Theoretical Criminology", 9(2): 175–201
*Matthews, R. Easton, H, Briggs, D. and Pease, K. (2007) "Assessing The Use and Impact of Anti-Social Behaviour Orders". Policy Press. ISBN 978- 1-84742-052-7.
* Matthews, R. (2008) "Prostitution, Politics and Policy". Routledge-Cavendish. ISBN 978-0-415-45917-4.