Andrew Millie is Professor of Criminology and Associate Head of the School of Law, Criminology and Policing, Edge Hill University. His research sits at the crossroads between criminology, philosophy and theology and aims to uncover the roots of criminological debates, and challenge conventional thinking in penal theory and ethics. 

He is the author of 'Philosophical Criminology' (2016) and his latest book is 'Criminology and Public Theology: On Hope, Mercy and Restoration' (2021), a collection that brings together leading criminologists and theologians to challenge penal orthodoxy.

Andrew is also known for research on policing, and he has just completed an ESRC-funded project on visible policing in partnership with colleagues from the Open University and Northumbria University.

• Criminology and public theology
• Philosophical criminology
• Christian ethics
• Penal theory
• Aesthetic criminology
• Policing

• CRI3023 Crime and place
• CRI3024 Criminology and philosophy

Andrew is a Trustee/Director of the British Society of Criminology and sits on the society’s Executive as Chair of the Regional Groups and Specialist Networks Committee. He is a member of the Research Advisory Group for the Howard League for Penal Reform, has been on the Editorial Board of the British Journal of Criminology and Editor for Urban Studies. He is currently on the editorial board of Crime Prevention and Community Safety.

He has also twice been a member of the QAA Subject Benchmark Statement Review Group for Criminology, most recently in 2021-22 Chairing the criminology Curriculum Sub-Committee.

Visible Policing Documentary, in partnership with colleagues from the Open University and Northumbria University, 11 February 2022

Turning away from retribution: How criminology might find inspiration in Christian theology, Transforming Society, 30 November 2020