Nick Ross

What makes crime rates ebb and flow? Is crime a deviant trait or a universal human activity? What effect do different kinds of punishment have on crime rate? What is the role of police and lawyers? What do criminologists do? Do criminals contribute to their own fate? When dealing with crime, does the media trade on our fears? What do you think and what do you know, about crime?

Popular broadcaster, presenter of Crimewatch for more than twenty years, founder of the Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science, professor, and Honorary Fellow, Nick Ross is the author of Crime – how to solve it and why so much of what we’re told is wrong.