Ian Loader is Professor of Criminology and Director of the Centre for Criminology at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of All Souls College. His research interests lie in policing and security; penal culture and politics, public sensibilities towards crime, order and justice; and the relationship between crime control and political culture and ideologies. His books include Civilizing Security (2007, Cambridge, with N. Walker), Policing and the Condition of England: Memory, Politics and Culture (2003, Oxford, with A. Mulcahy) and Crime and Social Change in Middle England (2000, Routledge, with E. Girling and R. Sparks). He has also written numerous papers on contemporary transformations in policing and security, and on the intersections between politics, criminology and crime control. Ian is an Editor of the British Journal of Criminology, Associate Editor of Theoretical Criminology and is on the editorial boards of Policing and Society, Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice, The Open Criminology Journal and IPS: International Political Sociology. Ian was a member of the Commission on English Prisons Today from 2007-2009. He is co-convener, with the Police Foundation, of the Oxford Policing Policy Forum and a member of the Council of Liberty.