Rate My Professor Murray Lee

Lee's research specializations include representations of crime and affect, fear of crime, sexting and young people, policing and the media, the policing of music and musicians, crime prevention, confidence in criminal justice systems, and spatial determinants of crime. He is the author of Inventing Fear of Crime: Criminology and the Politics of Anxiety (2007), co-author of Policing and Media: Public Relations, Simulations and Communications (2013), and co-editor of Fear of Crime: Critical Voices in an Age of Anxiety (2009) and The Routledge International Handbook on Fear of Crime (2017). Key journal articles include 'When Law-And-Order Politics Fail: Media Fragmentation and Protective Factors That Limit the Politics of Fear' (2022, British Journal of Criminology, with C. Keel), 'Dr[illing] In The Name Of: the criminalisation of Sydney drill group ONEFOUR' (2022, Current Issues in Criminal Justice), 'Searching for Connection: Music of incarceration, prison soundscapes, and sonic agency' (2023, Criminological Encounters), 'Being held to account: Detainees’ perceptions of police body-worn cameras' (2019, Journal of Criminology, with M. Willis), and 'Policing the Pedal Rebels: A Case Study of Environmental Activism Under COVID-19' (2021, International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy). Lee received the Best Peer-Reviewed Publication Award from the American Society of Criminology Division of Critical Criminology and Social Justice. His work has contributed to understandings of mediatised crime, digital criminology, and cultural aspects of criminal justice.