Professor Nigel South
Nigel South is Pro-Vice Chancellor (Academic and Regional Development) and a Professor of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Essex, Colchester.
He joined the University in 1990, previously working (from 1981) as a Research Sociologist at the Institute for the Study of Drug Dependence (now Drugscope), London.
His research interests include illegal and legal drug use and related health and crime issues.
He has reviewed drug treatment programs involving vocational and educational opportunities; and studied drugs (and wider) illicit markets. More broadly, he has interests in crime, inequalities and citizenship; as well as public health and interdisciplinary health and community safety initiatives.
Among recent books he has co-authored Criminology: A Sociological Introduction (2004, Routledge) and Crime in Modern Britain (2002, Oxford University Press) as well as editing / co-editing Drug Use and Cultural Contexts - Beyond the West (2004, Free Association Books); Drugs: Cultures, Controls and Everyday Life, (1999, Sage); The New European Criminology, (1998, Routledge). Earlier works include N. South and V. Ruggiero, Eurodrugs: Drug Use, Markets and Trafficking in Europe, (1995, UCL Press); N. Dorn, K Murji and N. South, Traffickers: Drug Markets and Law Enforcement, (1992, Routledge); and N. Dorn and N. South (eds.) A Land Fit for Heroin? Drug Policies, Prevention and Practice, (1987, Macmillan).
At the University of Essex he has served as Director of the Health & Social Services Institute, Head of the Department of Health & Human Sciences and as the Director for Health Partnerships.
