Vincenzo Ruggiero is Professor of Sociology at Middlesex University, London. He is also director of the Crime and Conflict Research Centre at Middlesex University. He has published extensively in international academic journals and was nominated as Distinguished International Academic by the American Society of Criminology (2000), received the Premio Nazionale G. Arena for the book Movements in the City (2002), and was nominated for the Hindelang Award by the American Society of Criminology for the book Crime in Literature (2004).