Professor Roger Bowles
Director of Centre for Criminal Justice Economics and Psychology/Professor of Economics, University of York
Profile
Professor Roger Bowles is Professor of Economics at the University of York and Director of the Centre for Criminal Justice Economics and Psychology. Roger has extensive experience in the design and management of major research projects in the criminal justice field. He has managed studies including ‘Costs and Benefits of Sentencing Options' (completed for the Home Office in March 2004) and ‘Monitoring and Evaluating the Safer Schools Partnerships Programme' (completed for the Youth Justice Board in June 2005). He is currently managing two major projects, namely Mainstreaming Methodology for Estimating the Costs of Crime (for the EC, 2007-08) and a Prevention Cohort Study (for the Youth Justice Board, 2007-2009). Roger was Principal Investigator on a number of projects completed in 2008 including a comparative review of legal aid for the Ministry of Justice and on developing, with Mark Cohen, a Model of Pre-Trial Detention for the Open Society Justice Initiative (New York).
Other activities
Roger is a member of the Futurebuilders Evaluation Research Steering Group based at the Office of the Third Sector.
Roger was President of the European Association of Law and Economics, 2007-08.
Recent and forthcoming publications
Bowles R (2009, forthcoming) ‘Corruption’, in N Garoupa (Ed.) Criminal Law and Economics, Edward Elgar Publishing
Bowles R (2009 forthcoming) ‘Valuing outcomes of criminal justice interventions’ in Dunworth T & Zedlewski E: ‘Cost-Benefit Analysis and Crime Control’ [working title], Urban Institute Press, Washington,
Bowles R (2008) ‘The Impact of Costs of Crime Methodology on Criminal Justice Policy.’ in M Faure & F Stephen (Eds.) Essays in the Law and Economics of Regulation. In Honour of Anthony Ogus. Antwerp, Intersentia,
Bowles R., Faure M. & Garoupa N. (2008) ‘The Scope of Criminal Law and Criminal Sanctions: An Economic View and Policy Implications’, Journal of Law and Society, 35(3), 389-416
Bowles R., Faure M. & Garoupa N. (2008) ‘Confiscation’; Entry in International Encyclopaedia of Social Sciences, 2nd edition
Bowles R and Florackis C, (2007) ‘Duration of the time to reconviction: Evidence from UK prisoner discharge data’, Journal of Criminal Justice, 35, 2005, 365-378
Bowles R (2006) ‘Economic Appraisal and Evaluation in the Criminal Justice Sector: A Review of Some Common Pitfalls’, in Legislacao: Cadernos de Ciencia de Legislacao , 42/43, Instituto Nacional de Administracao, Lisbon , Portugal , January/June
Bowles R, J Akpokodje and E Tigere, (2006) ‘ Evidence-Based Approaches to Crime Prevention in Developing Countries’, European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research, 11(3-4), 2005, 347-377 : Kluwer Academic Publishers B.V. ISSN: 0928-1371 (Paper) 1572-9869
Bowles, R. A., Faure, M. & Garoupa, N. (2005) Forfeiture of Illegal Gain: an economic perspective , Oxford Journal of Legal Studies , 25(2), 275-295
Bowles, R. A, Garcia Reyes M, Pradiptyo R. (2005) Youth Justice Board for England and Wales, Monitoring and Evaluation of the Safer School Partnerships Programme , YJB Publication.
Swaray, R., Bowles, R. & Pradiptyo, R. (2004). ‘The Application of Economic Analysis to Criminal Justice Interventions: A Review of the Literature’ , Criminal Justice Policy Review , 16(2), 141-163 .
Bowles, R. A. & Pradiptyo, R. (2004). Reducing Burglary Initiative: An Analysis of Costs and Benefits. Home Office Online Reports, 43/04
Bowles, R. A. & Garoupa, N. (2003). Household Dissolution, Child Care and Divorce Law , International Review of Law and Economics , 22, 495-510
Conference presentations, seminars and lectures
Bowles R ‘Scope of Criminal Law and Criminal Sanctions’, WZB Conference on Markets and Politics, Berlin, October 2008
Bowles R ‘Pre-Trial Detention: Outcome Measurement and Valuation’ European Society of Criminology, Edinburgh, September 2008
Bowles R ‘Economic Evaluation of Youth Crime Prevention Projects’, World Congress of Criminology, Barcelona, July 2008
Bowles R ‘Measuring the Costs of Crime’, Stockholm International Criminology Symposium, June 2008
Bowles R ‘Reconvictions Analysis’, Faculty of Law, University of Warsaw, Poland, March 2008
Bowles R & M Garcia Reyes ‘Recorded Crime and Victimisation: An Analysis of Burglary from 18 EU countries’, Italian Law and Economics Society, Milan, November 2007
Bowles R & M Garcia Reyes ‘Reporting and recording of crime’, European Society of Criminology, Bologna, September 2007
Bowles R & A Gardlund ‘Cost of crime estimates and the appraisal and evaluation of criminal justice projects’, presentation to: Stockholm International Criminology Symposium, June 2007
Cost Benefit Analysis and Crime Control Workshop, Urban Institute, Washington DC, November 2006: “Valuing outcomes of criminal justice interventions”
Bowles R. & Florackis C. ‘Sin in haste – repent at leisure: criminal convictions as adverse labour market signals’, presentation to: Italian Society of Law and Economics, Rome, October 2006
Bowles R ‘Victim Survey Data, Victim Costs of Crime and the Measurement of Public Safety’, presentation to: Stockholm International Criminology Symposium, June 2006
Bowles R. & Florackis C. ‘Impatience, reputation and offending’ University of Pescara, April 2006
Inaugural Lecture on the ‘Measurement of public safety’ at the University of York at 5.30pm on 26 June 2006