Simon Winlow is a critical criminologist with research expertise in both sociology and criminology. He is perhaps best known as an ethnographer, but he has also published widely on violence, criminal markets and cultures, and social, political and economic change. Professor Winlow is the author of Badfellas: Crime, Tradition and New Masculinities (2001, Berg) and co-author of Bouncers: Violence and Governance in the Night-time Economy (2003, Oxford University Press), Violent Night: Urban Leisure and Contemporary Culture (2006, Berg) and Criminal Identities and Consumer Culture: Crime, Exclusion and the New Culture of Narcissism (2008, Willan). He is also the co-editor of New Directions in Criminological Theory (2012, Routledge) and New Directions in Crime and Deviance (2012, Routledge).