Tim Newburn is Professor of Criminology and Social Policy at the London School of Economics and former Official Historian of Criminal Justice. He is the author of nearly 50 books, most recently Reading Riots: Protest and Violence n Late Modernity (2026), The Official History of Criminal Justice, Vol. V: Policing Post-War Britain: Plus ça Change (Routledge, 2024) and Orderly Britain: How Britain resolved its everyday problems: from dog mess to double-parking (with Ward, 2022).