Mike Hough

Mike Hough’s research interests include: procedural justice theory and public trust in justice; public perceptions of crime and justice; policing and police legitimacy; sentencing and sentencing guidelines; offender rehabilitation and desistance (and its evaluation).

Mike was founder and director of the Institute for Criminal Policy Research (ICPR), and is now an emeritus professor in the School of Law, Birkbeck, University of London. He is the author of Good Policing:
Trust, Legitimacy and Authority published by Bristol University Press.