Books by Roy King (Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Wales, Bangor)

Roy King is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice and Director of the Centre for Comparative Criminology and Criminal Justice in the University of Wales, Bangor. He has previously held positions at the Medical Research Council, Social Psychiatry Research Unit, and the Universities of London and Southampton in the UK and Yale University and the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in the United States. He has specialised in prison research for many years and has conducted studies across the world. At various times he has acted in an advisory capacity to prison services in England and Wales, Scotland, and the US. He has also carried out missions as a prisons expert for Amnesty International, the Council of Europe and Penal Reform International amongst others.