Professor Dick Hobbs
Professor Emeritus, Department of Sociology, University of Essex and Professor of Sociology Western Sydney University.
I came to academic work in my 30s and lurched into ethnography via the Chicago School, the sociologies of education, work, deviance, and policing along with historians of working-class London such as Henry Mayhew, Jerry White, Bill Fishman and Raphael Samuel. Was I not innumerate my career in criminology would be non-existent.