Professor Mike Hough

Chair of Trustees

Mike Hough is an Emeritus Professor at Birkbeck, University of London and a member of the Institute for Crime & Justice Policy Research (ICPR), which he founded and directed until his retirement in 2016. 

The European Society of Criminology awarded him the 2020 ESC European Criminology Award in recognition of his lifetime contribution to European criminology, and the British Society of Criminology awarded him its 2021 Outstanding Achievement Award.