Stuart Waiton

Stuart Waiton is a Sociology and Criminology lecturer. He also writes for several newspapers on issues associated with the criminalisation and over-regulation of everyday life.

His research interests include the politics of antisocial behaviour, the changing nature of politics beyond left and right and the construction of ‘hate crime’. He is also interested in early intervention and its role in crime-related social policy and the ‘policing’ of families. This and other work relates to ideas about ‘governing vulnerability’ within a ‘therapeutic culture’. Finally, he is interested in risk/fear and the ideas of moral and amoral panics.

He is  the author of Scared of the Kids, and The Politics of Antisocial Behaviour: Amoral Panics. His most recent book is Snobs’ Law: Criminalising Football Fans in an Age of Intolerance.