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David Scott

Biography

Davidteaches criminology at The Open University. He was the coordinator of the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control from 2009-2012. He is a former editor of the Howard Journal of Crime and Justice and is the co-founding editor of the journal Justice, Power and Resistance. David's main research interests include the ethical and political foundations of penal abolitionism; the relationship between abolitionism, human rights and social justice; critical social theory and the concept of 'crime'; and critical approaches to poverty, prisons and punishment. He is a Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto. Dr David Scott has worked at the Open University since August 2016. He studied social sciences and criminology at Lancaster University between 1991-1996 where he gained an MA (with distinction) and was awarded a doctorate in 2006 under the supervision of Barbara Hudson by the University of Central Lancashire. He has taught criminology to undergraduate and postgraduate students at a number of institutions since 1994 including Edge Hill University, the University of Northumbria at Newcastle, the University of Central Lancashire and Liverpool John Moores University. David is a former member of the steering committee of the Reclaim Justice Network. He was a founding member of the abolitionist penal pressure group No More Prison and for a number of years was an ambassador for Make Justice Work. He has been a campaigner against penal injustice for more than twenty years and has published eleven books. He is a director of the independent publisher EG Press. David has undertaken interviews for BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 5 Live and a number oflocal radio stations such as BBC Radio Northampton, BBC Radio Merseysideand BBC Radio Essex. He has also featured on national television,including contributions to BBC1 The Big Questions, BBC Wales Today and ITV News as well as contributing to the documentaries "Punishment: A Failed Social Experiment" (2012) and "Injustice" (2017). David has submitted evidence to a number of Parliamentary Committees and Official Inquiries. His research has been cited in the House of Parliament (see Hansard, 25th Janaury 2017)and also in HoC Briefing Papers on Prisons and Punishment (November 2016) and in November 2017 he spoke at the House of Commons on human rights and prison abolition.