Roger Matthews (criminologist)


Roger Matthews, was a British criminologist. He was a Professor of Criminology at the University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom. Prior to joining the University of Kent, he was a professor of criminology at London South Bank University and Middlesex University.
Matthews is known as one of the key figures in left realism, a criminological critique of both the dominant administrative criminology and the critical criminology.
He died on 7 April 2020 at the age of 71 from the effects of the COVID-19 virus.

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