Professor David Wilson |
"it is a celebration of banality
and eccentricity, not of genuine talent. In this modern version of the
Victorian freak show, too many of the contestants have neither the talent
nor the psychological equipment to cope with the sustained, harsh glare of
the public spotlight."
Read more of David's views about
Britain's Got Talent in the Daily Mail, 29 May 2009.
Meet Professor David Wilson, Britain's leading
criminologist and arguably its most controversial. He did time as a
prison governor, and is now an academic, a campaigner, a regular in our
media and according to The Guardian he's a "celebrity academic". Indeed
he's just topped a Times Educational poll of the most quoted
criminologists in the country.
LATEST NEWS See David on Sky News inside the mind of a serial killer shown
on Friday 22 February 2009. click here to see clips from Deadly Instinct: Inside the mind of a serial killer
Meanwhile David continues to
publish in The Guardian and can be found most readily in their Comment
section. His most recent contribution was to describe the work of the
independent Commission on the State of English Prisons - which David Chaired
and which reported in the summer of 2009
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