Working in the area of cultural criminology, Travis’s research focuses on the wars on drugs and terror, US police violence and the ways that crime, violence and disorder are imagined and represented. His writing appears numerous academic journals and edited collections.
His first book Meth Wars: police, media, power was published by New York University Press in 2016. With Yvonne Jewkes (University Bath, UK) he is also author of Media and Crime in the US (SAGE, 2017).With Michael Fiddler (University of Greenwich, UK) and Theo Kindynis (Goldsmiths, University of London) he co-edited the collection Ghost Criminology (NYUP, 2021). His second monograph, The Horror of Police will be published by The University of Minnesota Press in 2022. With Michelle Brown (University of Tennessee) he is presently at work on “Criminology Goes Back to the Movies” for New York University Press.
Travis serves on the editorial boards of Theoretical Criminology, Critical Criminology, Current Issues in Criminal Justice (Australia) and Qualitative Criminology and is the series co-editor of Emerald’s Studies in Culture, Criminal Justice and the Arts.
Travis took over editorial duties for the journal Crime, Media, Culture in 2019. In 2017, he was named Critical Criminologist of the Year, by the American Society of Criminology, Division of Critical Criminology and Social Justice.
His first book Meth Wars: police, media, power was published by New York University Press in 2016. With Yvonne Jewkes (University Bath, UK) he is also author of Media and Crime in the US (SAGE, 2017).With Michael Fiddler (University of Greenwich, UK) and Theo Kindynis (Goldsmiths, University of London) he co-edited the collection Ghost Criminology (NYUP, 2021). His second monograph, The Horror of Police will be published by The University of Minnesota Press in 2022. With Michelle Brown (University of Tennessee) he is presently at work on “Criminology Goes Back to the Movies” for New York University Press.
Travis serves on the editorial boards of Theoretical Criminology, Critical Criminology, Current Issues in Criminal Justice (Australia) and Qualitative Criminology and is the series co-editor of Emerald’s Studies in Culture, Criminal Justice and the Arts.
Travis took over editorial duties for the journal Crime, Media, Culture in 2019. In 2017, he was named Critical Criminologist of the Year, by the American Society of Criminology, Division of Critical Criminology and Social Justice.
