David Wilson | Academic Influence

Why Is David Wilson Influential?

According to Wikipedia, David Wilson is a Scottish emeritus professor of criminology at Birmingham City University. A former prison governor, he is well known as a criminologist specialising in serial killers through his work with various British police forces, academic publications, books and media appearances.

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David Wilson 's Published Works

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Published Works

Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life: A Philosophical Inquiry (1986) (750)
Innocence Betrayed: Paedophilia, the Media and Society (2002) (126)
Inventing Black-on-Black Violence: Discourse, Space and Representation (2005) (48)
What’s the deal with ‘websleuthing’? News media representations of amateur detectives in networked spaces (2018) (38)
Book Review: Prison(er) education: Stories of change and transformation (2002) (31)
In My Own World: A Case Study of a Paedophile's Thinking and Doing and His Use of the Internet (2008) (31)
‘Keeping Quiet’ or ‘Going Nuts’: Some Emerging Strategies Used by Young Black People in Custody at a Time of Childhood Being Re‐constructed (2003) (25)
In Praise of the Carceral Tour: Learning from the Grendon Experience (2011) (25)
“TO ME ITS [SIC] REAL LIFE”: Secondary Victims of Homicide in Newer Media (2017) (23)
How HMP Grendon ‘Works’ in the Words of Those Undergoing Therapy (2002) (22)
Re-theorizing the penal reform functions of the prison film (2005) (21)
‘Household Security’: Private Policing and Vigilantism in Doncaster (2000) (18)
New foundations: Pseudo-pacification and special liberty as potential cornerstones for a multi-level theory of homicide and serial murder (2014) (17)
In Search of the ‘Angels of Death’: Conceptualising the Contemporary Nurse Healthcare Serial Killer (2016) (15)
Driving, Pseudo-reality and the BTK: A Case Study (2015) (14)
'Keeping Quiet' or 'Going Nuts': Strategies Used by Young, Black, Men in Custody (2004) (13)
The British Hitman: 1974–2013 (2014) (13)
Some Reflections on Researching with Young Black People and the Youth Justice System (2006) (11)
Pain and Retribution: A Short History of British Prisons 1066 to the Present (2014) (11)
‘I'm Making a TV Programme Here!’: Reality TV's Banged Up and Public Criminology (2010) (10)
Becoming a Hitman (2015) (10)
Narrative Beyond Prison Gates (2015) (10)
Making Sense of ‘Facebook Murder'? Social Networking Sites and Contemporary Homicide (2015) (10)
Does engaging with serious offenders change students’ attitude and empathy toward offenders? A thematic analysis (2013) (9)
Black men, therapeutic communities and HMP Grendon (2012) (8)
Millbank, The Panopticon and Their Victorian Audiences (2003) (8)
The ‘Dunblane massacre’ as a ‘photosensitive plate’ (2017) (8)
PTSD Has Unreliable Diagnostic Criteria (2009) (6)
Prison for Beginners? The Strengths, Limitations and Potential Applications of Prisoner Handbooks (2013) (6)
When Thinking Leads to Doing: the Relationship Between Fantasy and Reality in Sexual Offending. (2008) (6)
Testing a Civilisation: Charles Dickens on the American Penitentiary System (2009) (5)
The psychopathy of a Victorian serial killer: integrating micro and macro levels of analysis (2013) (4)
Hitmen and the Spaces of Contract Killing: The Doorstep Hitman (2016) (4)
Driven to Kill: British Serial Killers and Their Occupations (2015) (3)
Enhancing Children's Rights to Protection from Violence and Neglect in Aotearoa New Zealand (2003) (3)
Faceless: High-profile murders and public recognition (2015) (2)
Making sense of the sexual sadist between the wars: the case of Harold Jones (2011) (2)
A failed success: the Barlinnie Special Unit. (2020) (2)
When Children Kill: Penal Populism and Political Culture by D.A. Green and Child Pornography and Sexual Grooming: Legal and Societal Responses by S. Ost (2010) (1)
Counterblast: The Public Criminologist and the Democratic Under-labourer (2013) (1)
Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity L. Wacquant. Durham, NC.: Duke University Press (2009) 384pp. £16.99pb ISBN 978-0-8223-4422-3 (2011) (1)
Prisons and how to get rid of them (2006) (1)
Broadmoor by H. Gordon. London: Psychology News Press (2012) 299pp. £25.00hb ISBN 978‐0‐907‐63335‐8; Broadmoor Revealed: Victorian Crime and the Lunatic Asylum by M. Stevens. Barnsley: Pen and Sword (2013) 192pp. £19.99pb ISBN 978‐1‐781‐59320‐2 (2013) (0)
Public Criminology? by I. Loader and R. Sparks (2010) (0)
Long Arm's-Length of the Law (2011) (0)
Playing ‘the Game’ Inside: young black men in custody (2003) (0)
City of Gangs: Glasgow and the Rise of the British Gangster by A. Davies. London: Hodder and Stoughton (2013) 450pp. £20.00hb ISBN 978‐1‐44‐476375‐1 (2014) (0)
A Turnkey or Not? by T. Levy. Clacton‐on‐Sea: Apex Publishing (2011) 236pp. £9.99pb ISBN 978‐1‐908582‐60‐7 (2012) (0)
Controversial Issues in Prison D. Scott and H. Codd. Maidenhead: Open University Press (2010) 222pp. £22.99pb ISBN 978‐0‐335‐22303‐9 The Prisoner B. Crewe and J. Bennett (Eds.). Abingdon: Routledge (2012) 183pp. £24.99pb ISBN 978‐0‐415‐66866‐8 (2012) (0)
The Prison Tour as a Pedagogical Tool: Challenges and Opportunities (2017) (0)
A Child Killer and Interwar Penal Policy Tensions (2013) (0)
The Firearms Safety and Consumer Protection Act (2006) (0)
Crime, Culture and the Media by E. Carrabine (2009) (0)
The Curious Case of Mr Howard: Legendary Prison Reformer T. West. Winchester: Waterside Press (2011) 384pp. £29.95hb ISBN 978‐1‐90438‐073‐3 (2012) (0)

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What Schools Are Affiliated With David Wilson ?

David Wilson is affiliated with the following schools:

University of Glasgow
Birmingham City University