Anthony Bottoms

Who is Anthony Bottoms?

Sir Anthony Edward Bottoms FBA is a life fellow at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, having previously been a Wolfson Professor of Criminology at Cambridge University from 1984 to 2006 and until December 2007 a Professor of Criminology jointly at the universities of Cambridge and Sheffield.

Bottoms was born 29 August 1939 and educated at Eltham College and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, followed by a PhD at Sheffield. He worked as a probation officer before entering academic life as a researcher at Cambridge, then a lecturer in Sheffield, becoming a professor there in 1976. He was made Knight Bachelor in 2001 for services to the criminal justice system, and is a Fellow of the British Academy. He is life fellow at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.