Gordon Hawkins

Gordon Joseph Hawkins (1919-2004) was an Australian criminologist and senior lecturer at Sydney University. Along with being a criminologist, he also acted, hosted a docuseries, and kept an opinion column in a newspaper.

Early life and education Gordon Hawkins was born in 1919 in London, England. Before his academic career, he served in World War II as a soldier. These ideals were involved with social reforms such as liberalism and tolerance; however, they were not introduced into legislation and policy until the 1990s. Later, Hawkins released Imprisonment in America: Choosing the future (1981), co-authored with Michael Sherman. They continued building on the focus from The Prison: Policy and Practice, concentrating on how prison systems work and what penal institutions should be like in the future.

Apart from his involvement in television, Gordon would write his opinions and observations from current events in a newspaper column throughout the 1960's and 1970's. Zimring, F. E., & Hawkins, G. (1973). Deterrence: The legal threat in crime control. University of Chicago Press. Zimring, F. E., & Hawkins, G. (1987a). Capital punishment and the American agenda. University of Chicago Press. Zimring, F. E., & Hawkins, G. (1987b). Pornography in a free society. Cambridge University Press. Zimring, F. E., & Hawkins, G. (1991). The scale of imprisonment. University of Chicago Press. Zimring, F. E., & Hawkins, G. (1992a). The search for rational drug control. Cambridge University Press. Zimring, F. E., & Hawkins, G. (1992b). Prison population and criminal justice policy in California. Institute of Governmental Studies Press, University of California. Zimring, F. E., & Hawkins, G. (1995). Incapacitation: Penal confinement and the restraint of crime. Oxford University Press. Zimring, F. E., & Hawkins, G. (1997). Crime is not the problem: Lethal violence in America. Oxford University Press. Zimring, F. E., Hawkins, G., & Kamin, S. (2001). Punishment and democracy: Three strikes and you're out in California. Oxford University Press.