Jock Young, who earned his B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the London School of Economics, is best known as the coauthor of The New Criminology, the 1973 book that founded a new school of thought about the subject. Another book, The Drugtakers, is a classic study of drug policy and drug behavior. His most recent book, The Exclusive Society, offers a withering critique of social exclusion in contemporary society. He won the American Society of Criminology's Sellin-Glueck Award in 1998 for Distinguished International Scholarship, the most prestigious award given in the United States to a non-American criminological scholar. In 2003 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Critical Criminology Division of the American Society of Criminology. Previously a professor of sociology and head of the Centre for Criminology at Middlesex University in England, he is a fellow of the United Kingdom's Royal Society of Arts. He is at present completing the manuscript of a book: Crossing the Borderline: Transgression and Order in Late Modernity.

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