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Robert Reiner is a British sociologist who has played a large role in making police studies a distinct field. [1] Currently he is Emeritus Professor of Criminology at London School of Economics Law School. [2] He was Reader in Criminology at Bristol University and at Brunel University, President of the British Society of Criminology from 1993-6 and Director of the LSE Mannheim Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice 1995-8. [1] [3]
He was born in Hungary in 1946. His refugee parents brought him to England when he was two. In 1967 he graduated from the University of Cambridge with a degree in Economics where he was taught, among others, by Ralph Miliband. He completed MSc in Sociology from London School of Economics in 1969. [1]
His book The Politics of the Police had a formative influence on the growth of police studies in UK and has been described as "the finest, most authoritative and comprehensive account of British policing in the post-war period and remains the standard work in the field." [1]
He was a co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Criminology. [2]
