Joe Sim

Professor Joe Sim is Emeritus Professor of Criminology at Liverpool John Moores University.

He is the author of a number of texts on prisons, including What Do We Know and What Should We Do About Abolishing Prisons (Sage, 2025).
 

Receive updates on our work
Joe Sim
Position
External contributor

Related Content

Meet the New Prisons Minister, Same as the Old Prisons Minister
If building more prisons is the answer, ministers are asking the wrong questions
Joe Sim
Professor Joe Sim is Emeritus Professor of Criminology at Liverpool John Moores University
We are having no more. We are not animals, we are human beings.
Successive governments over many years have indulged in banal sound-bites and failed prisons
Prison safety and reform: When?
Joe Sim writes on the grim legacy likely to be left by the White Paper on prison reform
Beyond Govism
The problems with Michael Gove’s reform agenda and what should be done instead