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Professor Andrew Millie

Profile summary

  • Central Academic Staff
  • Professor of Criminology
  • Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences
  • School of Social Sciences & Global Studies
  • Social Policy & Criminology
  • andrew.millie

Professional biography

I joined the Open University in 2024, having previously been Professor of Criminology at Edge Hill University. Before that I worked at various institutions including the University of Glasgow, Loughborough University and King's College London. I graduated from Swansea in 1991.

I'm Editor of the Bristol University Press book series New Horizons in Criminology and I'm on the executive of the British Society of Criminology - currently Chair of their Regional Groups and Specialist Networks Committee. I'm on the Editorial Board of the journal Crime Prevention and Community Safetty, and I've previously been on the Editorial Board of the British Journal of Criminology. I have also been an Editor for the journal Urban Studies.

Research interests

My research is interdisciplinary and pushes criminological boundaries by drawing on philosophy and theology to critically question western penal orthodoxy and the history of criminological thought. My work looks at alternative meanings of core criminological concepts of justice, punishment, and criminalisation. I also publish on ‘aesthetic criminology’ and have an international reputation for critical research on policing - including being part of a recently completed project on Visible Policing (ESRC Grant Reference: ES/R011885/1). Recent books include:

Millie, A. (ed.) (2021) Criminology and Public Theology: On Mercy, Hope and Restoration, Bristol: Bristol University Press.

Millie, A. (2016) Philosophical Criminology, Bristol: Policy Press.