Mike Hough
Biographic Data
| ID | 3838451 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mike Hough |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mike |
| FAMILY NAME | Hough |
| SIGNATURE | HOUGH M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Birkbeck, University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 114 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 6 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Why do people cooperate with the police and criminal courts? A test of procedural justice theory in 30 countries
This article presents a cross‐national test of the portability of procedural justice theory (PJT). Drawing on nationally representative survey data from 30 diverse social, political, and legal contexts across Europe and beyond, we find that the theory travels well across national borders and that its psychological purchase is particularly pronounced in societies where fair policing is considered the norm. First, in most countries, a normative acc…
Procedural justice, compliance with the law and police stop-and-search: A study of young people in England and Scotland
The policing of young people, especially through stop-and-search, has been rigorously debated in the context of rising violence in the UK. While concepts based on procedural justice theory and perceptions of police fairness are directly relevant to these debates, these have rarely been tested on young people, nor have they taken account of the impact of stop-and-search. This paper examines young people’s experiences of stop-and-search in two Scot…
Minority Youth and Social Integration: The ISRD-3 Study in Europe and the US
A Global Perspective on Young People as Offenders and Victims: First Results from the ISRD3 Study
Are the police embracing evidence-informed practice? A view from England and Wales
The What Works Centre for Crime Reduction (WWCCR) in the UK’s College of Policing has a key role in promoting the use of research in policing. Since 2014, the WWCCR has aimed to review – and make accessible – research to better inform and target crime reduction and to build police capacity to identify, evaluate and apply research evidence to practice. This comes amidst significant changes to entry requirements for policing in the UK as part of ef…
Missed Opportunities and New Risks: Penal Policy in England and Wales in the Past Twenty‐Five Years
This paper discusses trends in criminal justice and penal policy over the past twenty‐five years. This period has been characterised as a time of penal populism, which originated in the failure of the 1991 Criminal Justice Act, and the competition between the main political parties to be ‘tough on crime’. However, this is not the only trend to be found in penal policy. There has continued to be a strong undertow of support for rehabilitation and …
Public opinion, crime, and criminal justice
This chapter summarizes research on public opinion about crime and criminal justice in developed industrialized societies. It starts with an assessment of what can be said about public knowledge about crime, documenting widespread misperceptions about the nature of crime, about crime trends, and about the criminal justice response to crime. It then considers public attitudes towards crime and justice, which tend to be largely negative. The chapte…
Ethnicity, group position and police legitimacy
This chapter considers the association between ethnic minority status and police legitimacy across 27 European countries. It explores how people's experiences and circumstances may relate to their relationships with the police. Pooling data from the 27 countries, a series of joint models are fit. Estimating the average statistical effects of individual-level variables that are themselves averaged across the 27 countries, the chapter focuses on so…
Attitudes towards drug policies in Latin America: Results from a Latin-American Survey
Misconduct by police leaders in England and Wales: An exploratory study
The study that this article is based on examined cases of alleged misconduct involving chief police officers and staff. It described the nature of cases that came to light, examined pathways that lead to misconduct, and suggested ways of mitigating risks. The study was based on interviews with key stakeholders and with investigating officers in chief officer misconduct cases since April 2008. Cases involving chief officer misconduct fell into two…
Compliance and Legal Authority
Confessions of a recovering ‘administrative criminologist’: Jock Young, quantitative research and policy research
This article examines two phases of Jock Young’s work: first, in the 1980s when he was using quantitative criminological techniques in support of his Left Realist agenda; and second, in 2011 when he was offering an exuberant critique of quantitative methods. I consider these two separate and contrasting phases of his work from the viewpoint of someone whom Jock would have seen as an ‘administrative criminologist’ in the 1980s and more recently as…
Changing Attitudes to Punishment
The Routledge Handbook of European Criminology
In his 1989 presidential address to the American Society of Criminology, William Chambliss captured the criminological imagination with a new concept: state-organised crime, or state crime (Chambliss, 1989). Like its predecessor ‘white collar crime’ half a century earlier the concept of ‘state crime’ has drawn attention to the ‘key questions at the foundations of the discipline, the definition of crime’ (Rothe and Friedrichs, 2006: 150). Both con…
Procedural justice and professional policing in times of austerity
This article draws on a study of differential treatment of young people in the youth justice system to present a typology of styles of policing that contrasts procedural justice with adversarial policing. It considers the factors that can trap police in adversarial styles of policing and offers suggestions about how best to move towards policing grounded on principles of procedural justice. It argues that ideas about procedural justice may be abl…
Researching trust in the police and trust in justice: A UK perspective
This paper describes the immediate and more distant origins of a programme of comparative research that is examining cross-national variations in public trust in justice and in the police. The programme is built around a module of the fifth European Social Survey, and evolved from a study funded by the European Commission. The paper describes the conceptual framework within which we are operating – developed in large measure from theories of proc…
Developing European indicators of trust in justice
A social indicators approach to trust in justice recognizes that the police and criminal courts need public support and institutional legitimacy if they are to operate effectively and fairly. In order to generate public cooperation and compliance, these institutions must demonstrate to citizens that they are trustworthy and that they possess the authority to govern. In this paper we first outline the conceptual roadmap for a current comparative a…
Custody or community? Exploring the boundaries of public punitiveness in England and Wales
Determining the factors which make a difference between a custodial sentence and a community penalty is one of the most challenging decisions for sentencers. Little research to date has explored the nature of public reaction to mitigating factors and the circumstances which may justify imposition of a community penalty even though the custodial threshold has been crossed. This article reports findings from a representative survey of the British p…
Escape Routes: Contemporary Perspectives on Life after Punishment
Escape Routes: Contemporary Perspectives on Life After Punishment addresses the reasons why people stop offending, and the processes by which they are rehabilitated or resettled back into the community. Engaging with, and building upon, renewed criminological interest in this area, Escape Routes nevertheless broadens and enlivens the current debate. First, its scope goes beyond a narrowly-defined notion of crime and includes, for example, essays …
Remanded in Custody: An Analysis of Recent Trends in England and Wales
This article present statistics on remand in custody in England and Wales. Currently, these statistics are spread across a wide range of government statistical publications, making it challenging to determine trends. We demonstrate that decisions to remand in custody are not a major contribution to prison overcrowding. However, it is important from perspectives both of human rights and economy to keep trends under close review, and to search for …
Gold standard or fool’s gold? The pursuit of certainty in experimental criminology
This article assesses some of the claims made for experimental research in the field of rehabilitation of offenders. It suggests that both policy officials and evaluators have tended to over-invest financially and intellectually in a technocratic model of reducing reoffending that emphasizes programmes for offenders, and to under-invest in models that see the process as a complex ‘people changing’ skill. It argues that the complexity of this proc…
Tackling Prison Overcrowding: Build More Prisons? Sentence Fewer Offenders?
The 2003 Licensing Act's impact on crime and disorder: An evaluation
The Licensing Act 2003, coming into force in November 2005 in England and Wales, abolished set licensing hours for pubs and clubs. The aim was to liberalize a rigid system while reducing the problems of drinking and disorder associated with a standard closing time. This article summarizes the results of an evaluation funded by the Home Office. Despite widespread concern that the legislation would lead to `24-hour drinking' and an increase in asso…
Borderline sentencing: A comparison of sentencers' decision making in England and Wales, and Scotland
This article draws together findings from two related studies of sentencing in England and Wales, and Scotland. It examines how sentencers in the two jurisdictions differ in their sentencing decision making, with a focus on cases on the borderline between prison and a community penalty. The article suggests that, despite differences in legal systems and criminal justice structures, sentencers' decision making in the two jurisdictions was remarkab…
Reshaping probation and prisons: The new offender management framework
The Government has embarked on a programme of radical reform for the probation and prison services with the setting up of a National Offender Management Service (NOMS). The aim is to make the two services work more effectively together, and to promote private sector involvement in 'corrections' work. This groundbreaking volume takes a critical look at the different aspects of the NOMS proposals, at a time when the Government is still working out …
Sentencing Trends in Britain: Public Knowledge and Public Opinion
Research on public opinion over the past three decades has consistently established that the British public are critical of sentencers, and that this criticism exists independent of crime trends and even dramatic changes in criminal justice policies. This finding points to the possibilities that the findings are an artefact of the approach used by these surveys or that public opinion is formed in ignorance of actual practice. The 1996 British Cri…
Worry about crime: Mental events or mental states
Additional informationNotes on contributorsMIKE HOUGH Mike Hough, ICPR, School of Law, King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UK; e‐mail: [email protected] Stephen Farrall, Dept. of Criminology, Keele University, Newcastle under Lyme, Staffordshire, UK; e‐mail: [email protected] Mike Hough, ICPR, School of Law, King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UK; e‐mail: [email protected]
Procedural justice, compliance with the law and police stop-and-search: A study of young people in England and Scotland
The policing of young people, especially through stop-and-search, has been rigorously debated in the context of rising violence in the UK. While concepts based on procedural justice theory and perceptions of police fairness are directly relevant to these debates, these have rarely been tested on young people, nor have they taken account of the impact of stop-and-search. This paper examines young people’s experiences of stop-and-search in two Scot…
Modernization and public opinion: Some criminal justice paradoxes
This article is concerned with a paradox about public-sector modernization as it affects the criminal justice system. Whilst the modernization agenda has been shaped with its electoral attractiveness at least partly in mind, little attention is actually paid to the impact achieved by the process on public confidence in the services being "modernized'. The article examines public confidence in the police and in sentencers. It argues that the "mode…
Researching trust in the police and trust in justice: A UK perspective
This paper describes the immediate and more distant origins of a programme of comparative research that is examining cross-national variations in public trust in justice and in the police. The programme is built around a module of the fifth European Social Survey, and evolved from a study funded by the European Commission. The paper describes the conceptual framework within which we are operating – developed in large measure from theories of proc…
Gold standard or fool’s gold? The pursuit of certainty in experimental criminology
This article assesses some of the claims made for experimental research in the field of rehabilitation of offenders. It suggests that both policy officials and evaluators have tended to over-invest financially and intellectually in a technocratic model of reducing reoffending that emphasizes programmes for offenders, and to under-invest in models that see the process as a complex ‘people changing’ skill. It argues that the complexity of this proc…
The 2003 Licensing Act's impact on crime and disorder: An evaluation
The Licensing Act 2003, coming into force in November 2005 in England and Wales, abolished set licensing hours for pubs and clubs. The aim was to liberalize a rigid system while reducing the problems of drinking and disorder associated with a standard closing time. This article summarizes the results of an evaluation funded by the Home Office. Despite widespread concern that the legislation would lead to `24-hour drinking' and an increase in asso…
Misconduct by police leaders in England and Wales: An exploratory study
The study that this article is based on examined cases of alleged misconduct involving chief police officers and staff. It described the nature of cases that came to light, examined pathways that lead to misconduct, and suggested ways of mitigating risks. The study was based on interviews with key stakeholders and with investigating officers in chief officer misconduct cases since April 2008. Cases involving chief officer misconduct fell into two…
Confessions of a recovering ‘administrative criminologist’: Jock Young, quantitative research and policy research
This article examines two phases of Jock Young’s work: first, in the 1980s when he was using quantitative criminological techniques in support of his Left Realist agenda; and second, in 2011 when he was offering an exuberant critique of quantitative methods. I consider these two separate and contrasting phases of his work from the viewpoint of someone whom Jock would have seen as an ‘administrative criminologist’ in the 1980s and more recently as…
Procedural justice and professional policing in times of austerity
This article draws on a study of differential treatment of young people in the youth justice system to present a typology of styles of policing that contrasts procedural justice with adversarial policing. It considers the factors that can trap police in adversarial styles of policing and offers suggestions about how best to move towards policing grounded on principles of procedural justice. It argues that ideas about procedural justice may be abl…
Custody or community? Exploring the boundaries of public punitiveness in England and Wales
Determining the factors which make a difference between a custodial sentence and a community penalty is one of the most challenging decisions for sentencers. Little research to date has explored the nature of public reaction to mitigating factors and the circumstances which may justify imposition of a community penalty even though the custodial threshold has been crossed. This article reports findings from a representative survey of the British p…
Borderline sentencing: A comparison of sentencers' decision making in England and Wales, and Scotland
This article draws together findings from two related studies of sentencing in England and Wales, and Scotland. It examines how sentencers in the two jurisdictions differ in their sentencing decision making, with a focus on cases on the borderline between prison and a community penalty. The article suggests that, despite differences in legal systems and criminal justice structures, sentencers' decision making in the two jurisdictions was remarkab…
L'évolution de la criminalité à travers deux décennies du british crime survey
Cet article traite des apports du British Crime Survey (BCS) à la compréhension des tendances de la criminalité en Angleterre et Galles. Il décrit les origines et le développement de l'enquête et résume ses aspects méthodologiques. Il présente les résultats importants sur les tendances de la délinquance depuis 1981 et décrit la contribution du BCS à l'explication tant de la direction de ces tendances que des facteurs en rendant compte. Les auteur…
Threats: Findings from the British Crime Survey
This paper has two themes. The first concerns the status of phenomena counted by crime surveys: using threats as an example, it argues that surveys can count phenomena which are more inclusive than ‘crime’ either as operationally or nominally defined. Secondly, findings are presented from the British Crime Survey about threats and threatening behaviour. Though threats are often very upsetting experiences, there is not much evidence from the surve…
Are the police embracing evidence-informed practice? A view from England and Wales
The What Works Centre for Crime Reduction (WWCCR) in the UK’s College of Policing has a key role in promoting the use of research in policing. Since 2014, the WWCCR has aimed to review – and make accessible – research to better inform and target crime reduction and to build police capacity to identify, evaluate and apply research evidence to practice. This comes amidst significant changes to entry requirements for policing in the UK as part of ef…
Supporting offenders with multiple needs: Lessons for the ‘mixed economy’ model of service provision
This article draws on an evaluation of a large-scale programme in London, ‘From Dependency to Work’ (D2W), to discuss the obstacles to effective work with offenders with multiple needs. D2W, a five-year programme funded through the Single Regeneration Budget, aimed to support offenders with a range of multiple needs including drug dependence, mental health issues, employment problems and illiteracy. It was an ambitious programme that sought to co…
Urban terror in South Africa: A new wave
This article discusses and analyses the wave of bombing incidents occurring in South Africa between 1996 and the beginning of 2000, and inter alia linked to vigilante action, gang warfare and drug smuggling. An overview of measures adopted to combat what has been termed 'urban terrorism' is also provided. In conclusion, the point is made that it is unclear to what extent the incidents are criminally or politically motivated, or whether a combinat…
Thinking About Effectiveness
Journal Article THINKING ABOUT EFFECTIVENESS Get access MIKE HOUGH MIKE HOUGH Principal Research officer *Research and Plaining Unit, Home Office Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 27, Issue 1, Winter 1987, Pages 70–79, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjc.a047655 Published: 01 January 1987
The British Crime Survey
Managing With Less Technology
Journal Article MANAGING WITH LESS TECHNOLOGY: The Impact of Information Technology on Police Management Get access MIKE HOUGH MIKE HOUGH Senior research officer, Home Office Research UnitLondon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 20, Issue 4, October 1980, Pages 344–357, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjc.a047182 Published: 01 October 1980
Managing With Less Technology
Journal Article MANAGING WITH LESS TECHNOLOGY: The Impact of Information Technology on Police Management Get access MIKE HOUGH MIKE HOUGH Senior research officer, Home Office Research UnitLondon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 20, Issue 4, October 1980, Pages 344–357, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjc.a047182 Published: 01 October 1980
The British Crime Survey
Elderly Victims of Crime and Exposure to Risk
It has been debated for some time whether lower rates of personal victimisation among the elderly are due to the fact that ‐ because of fear or other reasons ‐ they shield themselves from situations in which they might be victimised. This ‘differential exposure’ explanation is examined using data from the 1982 British Crime Survey which provides risks for different age/ sex groups and detailed information about respondents' ‘lifestyles’. Looking …
Dealing with Offenders: Popular Opinion and the Views of Victims
Increasing emphasis is being placed both on achieving a better Jit between sentencing policy and public opinion and on meeting the needs and wishes of victims of crime. There has, however, been a dearth of factual information about the views both of the general public and of victims on punishment. This paper presents findings from the 1982 and 1984 sweeps of the British Crime Survey. The British Crime Survey suggests that neither public opinion n…
Thinking About Effectiveness
Journal Article THINKING ABOUT EFFECTIVENESS Get access MIKE HOUGH MIKE HOUGH Principal Research officer *Research and Plaining Unit, Home Office Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 27, Issue 1, Winter 1987, Pages 70–79, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjc.a047655 Published: 01 January 1987
Threats: Findings from the British Crime Survey
This paper has two themes. The first concerns the status of phenomena counted by crime surveys: using threats as an example, it argues that surveys can count phenomena which are more inclusive than ‘crime’ either as operationally or nominally defined. Secondly, findings are presented from the British Crime Survey about threats and threatening behaviour. Though threats are often very upsetting experiences, there is not much evidence from the surve…
Sentencing Trends in Britain: Public Knowledge and Public Opinion
Research on public opinion over the past three decades has consistently established that the British public are critical of sentencers, and that this criticism exists independent of crime trends and even dramatic changes in criminal justice policies. This finding points to the possibilities that the findings are an artefact of the approach used by these surveys or that public opinion is formed in ignorance of actual practice. The 1996 British Cri…
Urban terror in South Africa: A new wave
This article discusses and analyses the wave of bombing incidents occurring in South Africa between 1996 and the beginning of 2000, and inter alia linked to vigilante action, gang warfare and drug smuggling. An overview of measures adopted to combat what has been termed 'urban terrorism' is also provided. In conclusion, the point is made that it is unclear to what extent the incidents are criminally or politically motivated, or whether a combinat…
Balancing public health and criminal justice interventions
Penal Populism and Public Opinion: Lessons from Five Countries
Although criminal justice systems vary greatly around the world, one theme has emerged in all western jurisdictions in recent years: a rise in both the rhetoric and practice of severe punishment at a time when public opinion has played a pivotal role in sentencing policy and reforms. Despite the differences among jurisdictions, startling commonalities exist among the five countries-the U.K., USA, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand-surveyed here. …
Research Briefing: Sizing the Market for Powder Cocaine – is a New Approach Needed
This article discusses approaches to assessing the size of the illicit market for powder cocaine, and the inherent difficulties of this issue. It describes recent attempts to investigate more accurate measures of the prevalence and extent of use than have been available to date. A new approach is suggested in which estimates are derived separately ‐ using separate methodologies for different groups of powder cocaine users, and then summed. The re…
Modernization and public opinion: Some criminal justice paradoxes
This article is concerned with a paradox about public-sector modernization as it affects the criminal justice system. Whilst the modernization agenda has been shaped with its electoral attractiveness at least partly in mind, little attention is actually paid to the impact achieved by the process on public confidence in the services being "modernized'. The article examines public confidence in the police and in sentencers. It argues that the "mode…
Youth crime and youth justice: Public opinion in England and Wales
Youth crime and youth justice: Public opinion in England and Wales
This report presents the findings from the first national, representative survey of public attitudes to youth crime and youth justice in England and Wales. It carries clear policy implications in relation to both public education and reform of the youth justice system
Drug markets and distribution systems
Illicit drug markets are a part of our society. How visible and detrimental they are to their host communities has shaped enforcement action against them. Until the mid-1990s, open street-based markets were probably where most illicit drugs of dependency were bought and sold. With the steady rise in market activity, communities tired of the damage these markets caused, and demanded a police response. Quite separately, but around the same time, th…
Worry about crime: Mental events or mental states
Additional informationNotes on contributorsMIKE HOUGH Mike Hough, ICPR, School of Law, King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UK; e‐mail: [email protected] Stephen Farrall, Dept. of Criminology, Keele University, Newcastle under Lyme, Staffordshire, UK; e‐mail: [email protected] Mike Hough, ICPR, School of Law, King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UK; e‐mail: [email protected]
L'évolution de la criminalité à travers deux décennies du british crime survey
Cet article traite des apports du British Crime Survey (BCS) à la compréhension des tendances de la criminalité en Angleterre et Galles. Il décrit les origines et le développement de l'enquête et résume ses aspects méthodologiques. Il présente les résultats importants sur les tendances de la délinquance depuis 1981 et décrit la contribution du BCS à l'explication tant de la direction de ces tendances que des facteurs en rendant compte. Les auteur…
Understanding Public Attitudes to Criminal Justice
The State of the Prisons: Exploring Public Knowledge and Opinion
This article reviews public opinion research relating to imprisonment. The focus is upon British attitudes, but wherever possible we place findings from this country in an international context. Most members of the public report little familiarity with the prison system – few people report having had any direct contact with a penal institution. A common finding around the world is that most people believe that prison conditions are quite easy; th…
Reshaping probation and prisons: The new offender management framework
The Government has embarked on a programme of radical reform for the probation and prison services with the setting up of a National Offender Management Service (NOMS). The aim is to make the two services work more effectively together, and to promote private sector involvement in 'corrections' work. This groundbreaking volume takes a critical look at the different aspects of the NOMS proposals, at a time when the Government is still working out …
Over-regulation or legitimate control
Supporting offenders with multiple needs: Lessons for the ‘mixed economy’ model of service provision
This article draws on an evaluation of a large-scale programme in London, ‘From Dependency to Work’ (D2W), to discuss the obstacles to effective work with offenders with multiple needs. D2W, a five-year programme funded through the Single Regeneration Budget, aimed to support offenders with a range of multiple needs including drug dependence, mental health issues, employment problems and illiteracy. It was an ambitious programme that sought to co…
Borderline sentencing: A comparison of sentencers' decision making in England and Wales, and Scotland
This article draws together findings from two related studies of sentencing in England and Wales, and Scotland. It examines how sentencers in the two jurisdictions differ in their sentencing decision making, with a focus on cases on the borderline between prison and a community penalty. The article suggests that, despite differences in legal systems and criminal justice structures, sentencers' decision making in the two jurisdictions was remarkab…
Tackling Prison Overcrowding: Build More Prisons? Sentence Fewer Offenders?
The 2003 Licensing Act's impact on crime and disorder: An evaluation
The Licensing Act 2003, coming into force in November 2005 in England and Wales, abolished set licensing hours for pubs and clubs. The aim was to liberalize a rigid system while reducing the problems of drinking and disorder associated with a standard closing time. This article summarizes the results of an evaluation funded by the Home Office. Despite widespread concern that the legislation would lead to `24-hour drinking' and an increase in asso…
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