Professor Maurice Punch

Department: Mannheim Centre for Criminology
Contact details: tel. 31 (0)20 641 2339; fax 31 (0)20 643 5496; punch@xs4all.nl

Maurice Punch studied at the universities of Exeter, London, Cambridge, and Essex (MA,1966 and PhD,1972). He has worked at Essex University, University of Utrecht, State University of New York (SUNY) Albany and Nyenrode University (The Netherlands Business School). He has given numerous lectures, seminars and courses in several countries including Spain, Italy and Finland.

In the UK he first specialised in the sociology of education, while in the Netherlands (where he has lived since 1975) he has researched corporate crime, regulation and control in business and deviance, corruption, integrity and reform of the police organisation. He has published in English, Dutch, French and American journals and has written several books including Dirty Business: exploring corporate misconduct (London: Sage: 1996). His latest book, with Jim Gobert (University of Essex), is Rethinking Corporate Crime (Butterworths: 2003).

After 16 years as Professor of Sociology at Nyenrode, where he held many administrative functions and set up the International MBA Programme, he became an independent researcher and consultant in 1994. Since then he has researched crises in policing in Britain, Belgium and the Netherlands; taught on the National Police Training (Bramshill) and University of Cambridge programme in applied criminology for senior police officers in the UK; and has taught on various executive programmes for managers, bankers and consultants including seminars on ethics, integrity and control.

In 1999 he became Visiting Professor at the Mannheim Centre for Criminology where he teaches primarily in the areas of policing and of corporate crime. In the Netherlands he was on the board of 'RBC Network' for several years and with colleagues from there he engaged in studies of organisations leading to strategic interventions.

He has been involved in numerous conferences as presenter, organiser and chair including contributions for the Council of Europe, United Nations and National Institute of Justice. He organised and chaired panels at the Global Forum on Fighting Corruption and Safeguarding Integrity II in The Hague and at the International Anti-Corruption Conference in Prague in 2001.

Publications

• "Tackling Business Crime within Companies", Security Journal, 2: 2: 39-52: 1999.
• Review of R. V. Ericson and K. D. Haggerty, "Policing the Risk Society', in Policing and Society, 1998. Another version of this review in: Administrative Science Quarterly, 44: 1 (March): 199-201: 1999. And a translation of this in: Les Cahiers de la Sécurité Intérieure, 33: 3: 245-248: 1998.
• With G. Markham, "Policing disasters: The British experience," International Journal of Police Science & Management, 3: 1: 40-54: 2000.
• With J. Gobert, "Whistle-blowing and the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998," Modern Law Review, 63: 1: 25-54: 2000.
• With G. Markham, "The Gemini Solution: Embracing Accountability," in: Menachem Amir and Stanley Einstein (eds.) Police Corruption: Challenges for Developed Countries. Huntsville, TX: OICJ: 2004: 493-509.
• Council of Europe: preparatory seminar on police corruption, Strasbourg, September 1998; this led to the 12th. Criminological Colloquium in November 1999; my presentation on "Police corruption and its prevention" was published in the proceedings: Police Powers and Accountability in a Democratic Society. Strasbourg: Council of Europe: Criminological Research, Vol. XXXIII: 2000: 65-90.
• A revised version of the above paper was published as "Police Corruption and its Prevention," European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research, 8: 301-324: 2000. This version was reworked by Dominique Monjardet as "La corruption de la police et sa prévention", Les Cahiers de la Sécurité Intérieure, 40: 2: 217-249: 2000.
• "Suite Violence: Why managers murder and corporations kill", Crime, Law and Social Change, 33: 2000: 243-280.
• With Kees van der Vijver and Olga Zoomer, "Dutch `COP`: Developing community policing in the "Netherlands," Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies & Management. 25: 1: 60-79: 2002.
• "Rotten Orchards: `Pestilence`, Police Misconduct and System Failure," Policing and Society, 13: 2: 171-196: 2003.
• With Denis E. Nowicki, "Fostering Integrity and Professional Standards" in W. A. Geller and D. W. Stephens (eds.), Local Government Police Management. Washington, DC: ICMA: 2003: 315-352.
• "The Belgian Disease: Dutroux, Scandal and `System Failure` in Belgium" in Rick Sarre, Hans-Joerg Albrecht and Dilip Das (eds.) Proceedings of International Police Executive Symposium: Poland 2001, Lexington Books: 2005.
• "From 'Rotten Apple' to 'Rotten Orchards'": in Menachem Amir and Shlomo Einstein (eds.) Police Corruption. Huntsville, TX: OICJ: 2004: 305-333 (reprint of article from Policing and
  Society).
• With Maggy Lee, "Policing by Degrees", Policing and Society, 14: 3: 2004: 233-249.
• With G. Markham, "Animal Rights, Public Order and Police Accountability", International Journal of Police Science & Management. 6: 2: 2004: 84-96.
• With Jim Gobert, Rethinking Corporate Crime, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 2003.
• Policing by Degrees: . Groningen: Hondsrug Pers: 2006.
• "Paradigm Lost: The Dutch Dilemma", in The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, Vol. 38, Number 2, pp. 268-281, 2005.

   

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