Pat Carlen is Editor-in-Chief of The British Journal of Criminology, co-founder of the UK campaigning group Women in Prison and has published 19 books and many articles on crime and social justice.
She has conducted research in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Israel, USA and Peru, and given lectures in all those countries as well as in The Netherlands, Denmark, Portugal, Spain, Canada, Austria, Hungary, Sweden, South Africa and China. Selected works have been translated into Japanese, Norwegian, Dutch, Portuguese and Spanish.
In 1997 she was awarded the American Society of Criminology’s Sellin-Glueck Prize for Outstanding International Contributions to Criminology, in 2010 the British Society of Criminology’s Award for Outstanding Achievement and in 2011 an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from Lincoln University.
A collection of her works entitled A Criminological Imagination: Essays on Punishment, Justice, Discourse was published in Ashgate’s Pioneers in Contemporary Criminology Series in 2010. Official Discourse: On discourse analysis, government publications, ideology and the state (with Frank Burton 1977) is to be reissued by Routledge in November 2012.
