Maurice E. Punch London School of Economics, UK, Consultant

Maurice Punch studied at the universities of Exeter, Cambridge, and Essex (MA 1966 and PhD 1972) and has worked at Essex University, University of Utrecht, SUNY Albany and Nyenrode University (The Netherlands Business School). After some 20 years in Dutch universities he became an independent researcher and consultant in 1994; in 1999 he was appointed Visiting Professor at the Mannheim Centre at LSE where he teaches primarily in the areas of policing with special attention to police deviance; and also on corporate and white-collar crime. He is also Visiting Professor at King's College London where he teaches on the MA Criminology Programme. He has given numerous lectures, seminars and courses in several countries including UK, USA, Netherlands, Spain, Germany, Belgium, Italy and Finland and has published in English, Dutch and American journals.