Jeff Ferrell is Professor of Sociology at Texas Christian University, USA, and Visiting Professor of Criminology at the University of Kent, UK.
He is author of the books Crimes of Style, Tearing Down the Streets, Empire of Scrounge, andDrift: Illicit Mobility and Uncertain Knowledge. He is co-author, with Keith Hayward and Jock Young, of the first and second editions of Cultural Criminology: An Invitation, winner of the 2009 Distinguished Book Award from the American Society of Criminology’s Division of International Criminology. He is also co-author, with Alvaro Oxley Da Rocha, Keith Hayward, and Salah H. Khaled, Jr., of Explorando Criminologia Cultural, and he is co-editor of the books Cultural Criminology, Ethnography at the Edge, Making Trouble, Cultural Criminology Unleashed, and Cultural Criminology: Theories of Crime.
Jeff Ferrell is founding and current editor of the New York University Press book series Alternative Criminology, and one of the founding editors of Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal, winner of the ALPSP2006 Charlesworth Award for Best New Journal.
In 1998 Ferrell received the Critical Criminologist of the Year Award from the American Society of Criminology’s Division of Critical Criminology and Social Justice; in 2018 he received the Division’s Lifetime Achievement Award.