Dr Rafe McGregor is Reader in Criminology in the Department of History, Geography, and Social Sciences at Edge Hill University. A critical theorist with research expertise in Anglophone culture, political violence, and policing, he is the author of twenty books, including: Reducing Political Violence: Narrative Accounts of Crime and Harm (2026), Anthropocide: An Essay in Green Cultural Criminology (2025), Recovering Police Legitimacy: A Radical Framework (2024), and Literary Theory and Criminology (2023). He is a fellow of Advance HE.

Education

  • 2015 
    University of York, PhD/Philosophy

Professional Memberships

  • Advance HE (Fellow)

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