Murray Lee

Murray Lee is a Professor in Criminology at the University of Sydney Law School. He is the author of Inventing Fear of Crime: Criminology and the Politics of Anxiety, co-author of Policing and Media: Public Relations, Simulations and Communications, and co-editor of Fear of Crime: Critical Voices in an Age of Anxiety. His current research interests involve fear of crime, the Policing of music and musicians, policing and the media, 'sexting' and young people, crime prevention, confidence in criminal justice systems, and the spatial determinants of crime. Murray currently teaches in the fields of policing, crime theory, fear and risk of victimisation, punishment, and environmental criminology. He is Chief Investigator on the ARC funded project The Policing of Australian Popular Music.