Biography
Nick Tilley has taught or conducted research at Coventry University, Nottingham Trent University, the University of Minnesota, Griffith University, the Home Office, and, most recently, University College London. He is an elected Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences (FAcSS) and has been awarded an OBE for services to policing and crime reduction. The Tilley Award for police problem-solving is named in his honour. He is Honorary Professor at UCL, Emeritus Professor at Nottingham Trent University, and Visiting Professor at Huddersfield University. He is the author or editor of 15 books and more than 200 chapters and journal articles, mostly to do with evaluation methodology, policing, and crime prevention.
"Nick Tilley has done more than anyone to put crime prevention on the map in terms of public policy and as a focus for academic research. As this new book, Better Crime Prevention, makes clear, he also has an unrivalled grasp of what crime prevention is and how as a society we can become better at doing it in practice. The book builds on a previous 2007 work but updates it considerably. It is in some ways a textbook, including exercises for students, but that somewhat underplays what is also a comprehensive manifesto for the future of crime prevention policy and practice."
- Rick Muir, The Police Foundation, London, UK
