Criminological Connections, Directions, Horizons

This timely book presents a carefully curated selection of essays to celebrate the career of Nigel South, Emeritus Professor at the Department of Sociology and Criminology of the University of Essex, and one of the leading figures in his field.

Through his long career, still ongoing and flourishing, Nigel has contributed knowledge in many areas of criminological scholarship and challenged the confines of the discipline, opening up new directions for thinking and debate. In this volume, Nigel?s close colleagues and friends celebrate his exceptional career through essays that draw on, or have been inspired by, his earlier or most recent work. Spanning across the areas of policing, drugs, green, southern, and sensory criminology, these essays offer cutting-edge research and fresh conceptual insights honouring the work of an outstanding criminologist, colleague, friend, and human being.

This volume will be of pivotal interest to students, scholars, and academics in the fields of sociology and criminology, as well as those with an interest in these areas more generally.

?This book, while celebrating the remarkable career of Dr Nigel South, one of the key thinkers in contemporary criminology, is no ordinary Festschrift. For, given Dr South?s long career at the cutting-edge of debates within criminology, it features a series of fascinating essays that are both informative, in terms of the core issues within policing, drugs research, green, southern, and sensory criminology, and conceptually at the forefront of the discipline.  By focusing on Dr South's contributions, the collection is also illustrative of the importance of the biographical turn within criminology ? the need to place individual thinkers within current debates and the development of the discipline.?

-Prof Jayne Mooney, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Graduate Center, CUNY.

This book is a wonderful tribute to the continuing influence of Nigel South on the development of green criminology. It shows him to be a scholar-activist of the highest magnitude. I am fortunate indeed to count him as a colleague.

-Piers Beirne, Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Legal Studies, University of Southern Maine.

?This is an inspiring collection of essays celebrating the path breaking intellectual trajectory of Nigel South. The nature of festschrifts implies some backward-looking review of past achievements. The exceptional feature of this volume, reflecting the pioneering character of Nigel South?s work over several decades and numerous areas of criminology, is that its contributions are vital for understanding the futures of not just criminal justice but the world itself. Nigel South has been the foundational research, policy, and analytic voice in critical approaches to policing, drug markets, international law enforcement and green criminology. This book?s editors have assembled an impressive array of diverse and distinguished authors. The result is not only a wonderful celebration of Nigel South. It is a vital contribution to understanding the crises facing the globe.?

-Robert Reiner, Emeritus Professor of Criminology, London School of Economics.

?This exceptional collection of essays is the ideal tribute to Nigel?s pioneering scholarship, intellectual generosity and distinguished contributions to criminology spanning over four decades. The book exemplifies the best of the socially engaged criminological tradition and will no doubt inspire scholars and practitioners across the global North and South for years to come.?

-Professor Maggy Lee, Department of Sociology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.