Simon Winlow

Simon Winlow is Professor of Social Sciences at Northumbria University, UK. A fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, his work is particularly well known in the fields of criminology, sociology and contemporary political analysis. He is the author or co-author of the following books: Badfellas: Crime, Tradition and New Masculinities (Berg, 2001); Bouncers: Violence and Governance in the Night-time Economy (Oxford University Press, 2003); Violent Night: Urban Leisure and Contemporary Culture (Berg, 2006); Criminal Identities and Consumer Culture: Crime, Exclusion and the New Culture of Narcissism (Willan, 2008); Rethinking Social Exclusion: The End of the Social? (Sage, 2013); Riots and Political Protest: Notes from the Post-Political Present (Routledge, 2015); Revitalizing Criminological Theory: Towards a New Ultra-Realism (Routledge, 2015); The Rise of the Right: English Nationalism and the Transformation of Working-Class Politics (Policy, 2017); The Death of the Left: Why We Must Begin from the Beginning Again (Policy, 2022) and The Politics of Nostalgia (Emerald, 2025).