Mark Austin Walters Author

Dr Mark Austin Walters is a lecturer in law at the University of Sussex where he teaches criminal law and criminology, as well as the Co-Director of the Network for International Hate Studies. He completed his DPhil in law (criminology) at the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford in 2011 and he also has an MSc in Criminology and Criminal Justice (Research Methods) from the University of Oxford (2008) and an LLM specialising in criminal justice from the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (2006). He has published widely in the field of hate crime, focusing in particular on the criminalisation of hate-motivated offences, the use of restorative justice in hate crime cases, and criminological theories of causation.