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Peter Squires
Peter Squires is Professor of Criminology & Public Policy at the University of Brighton and current President of the British Society of Criminology.

Education and Early Career
Peter Squires graduated in Sociology & Social Policy from the University of Bristol and his PhD (titled, Studies in the Criminalisation of Poverty), was completed there in 1985. Before that he taught sociology and social policy at Roehampton Institute and for the Open University and at Bristol Polytechnic. He began working at the University of Brighton in 1986 and his acadmic work has ranged across a wide range of themes and topics. After experience as a management Committee member of the Brighton Community Law Centre and the Community Health Council he was elected as a Brighton Borough councillor for Regency Ward (between 1990-94) with particular responsibilities for ‘anti-poverty’ strategy, policing and public safety and economic development.

Since the early 1990s he has helped develop the new teaching and research specialism in criminology and criminal justice at Brighton. This has attracted many new students (at undergraduate, graduate and research student levels) and contributed significantly to the growth of the school.

Career
Peter Squires has undertaken a great deal of research and consultancy with, among others, Sussex Police, The Metropolitan Police, London Boroughs, the European Forum for Urban Safety, the East Sussex Fire and Rescue Service and the Youth Justice Board – as well as with colleagues in other universities. In 2003 he was briefly co-opted onto the Home Office Firearms Consultative Committee as a result of his work in the field of firearms and crime. He was promoted to Professor of Criminology & Public Policy in 2005. In 2009 he became a member of the British Society of Criminology Executive Committee, and President in 2015. In 2010 he was appointed as a panel member for the REF2014 research assessment.

More recently he has joined the ACPO (Association of Chief Police Officers) independent advisory group on criminal use of firearms.

Areas of interest include:


 * Youth Crime and Disorder, Anti-Social Behaviour
 * Weapons, Crime and Violence
 * Gun Crime & Gun Control
 * Community Safety
 * Crime Prevention
 * CCTV surveillance
 * Policing
 * Fire Safety Research