Staff profiles

• Crime, Addiction and Risk.

Roger's Research, scholarly and professional interests include:

• Criminological theory
• Criminal justice theory
• Young people, crime and justice
• Generic (and state sponsored) policing and social control
• Anti-social behaviour

He is widely published and is the author of ‘Zero Tolerance Policing’ (Macmillan, 1998), ‘An Introduction to Criminological Theory’ (Willan, 2001, 2005 and 2009), ‘Hard Cop/Soft Cop’ (Willan, 2004), ‘Young People, Crime and Justice’ (Willan, 2008), 'Criminal Justice Theory: An Introduction' (2011).

A fourth edition of 'An Introduction to Criminological Theory' will be published by Routledge in 2013.

Roger has collaborated with the following:

• Youth Justice Board
• National Youth Agency

Research contracts that Roger is involved with:

• 1999, Youth Justice Board, £20,000, Offending on Bail
• 2002, National Youth Agency, £15,000, National Audit of Youth Service Crime Prevention programmes

Roger is currently engaged in an NTU funded SPUR project researching anti-social behaviour in Nottingham in association with the Nottingham Crime and Drugs Partnership.  He is also involved in non-funded research and scholarship in the areas of criminological theory, young people, crime and justice, criminal justice theory and probation.

Roger's external academic and professional activities include:

• Associate Editor of the Internet Journal of Criminology
• Branch Secretary, Midlands Branch of British Society of Criminology 2002-05
• Reviewer of ESRC research proposals, books and book proposals for various journals and book publishers
• Key Note Address given to the Third Symposium of the Nottingham Centre for the Study and Reduction of Hate Crimes, Galleries of Justice (NCSRHC and SOLON), Nottingham, 19-20 February 2005. ‘Theoretically Informing the Hate Crimes Motivation Research Agenda: Some Observations from Sociologically Informed Criminological Theory'

Roger has supervised in the following areas:

• Policing and public order
• Young people and criminality
• Hate crimes.

Roger is interested in supervising in the following areas:

• Policing, disorder and social control
• Young people and criminality
• Youth justice
• Criminological theory
• Criminal justice theory
• Anti-social behaviour
• Desistance

Roger Hopkins Burke began his academic career at NTU as a research assistant in 1988 becoming a research fellow in the Nottingham Crime Research Unit conducting numerous evaluation studies in Nottingham and the East Midlands. He went to Leicester University as a lecturer in criminal justice in 1994 and became responsible for implementing the major distance learning programme in that subject area as programme leader. 

Roger returned to NTU in 1999 as a Senior Lecturer and was the Director of the Nottingham Crime Research Unit for several years. He is now subject leader of a criminology group which is one of the largest in the UK.