Mike Sutton

Mike Sutton is a notable alumnus, has a first degree in law and a PhD in criminology from the University of Central Lancashire. He was for 14 years a senior criminologist at the British Home Office. In 2001 he was appointed to the senior academic position of Reader in Criminology at Nottingham Trent University, where soon after he founded the "Centre for Reduction of Bias, Prejudice and Hate Crime." Sutton is Chief Editor of the Internet Journal of Criminology. He co-won the British Journal of Criminology Prize for his research on hackers with David Mann.