Peter Squires is a Professor [Emeritus] of Criminology and Public Policy at the University of Brighton, where he worked for over 30 years. His work has covered a wide range of issues including: community safety, policing, youth crime, gangs, violence and anti-social behaviour management, as well as firearm-related crime. He was President of the British Society for Criminology (2015- 2019). He is the author of several books, the three most recent, Rethinking Knife Crime (Palgrave), co-authored with Dr. Elaine Williams was published in November 2021, an edited collection on Southern & Postcolonial Perspectives on Policing, Security and Social Order, (Bristol/Policy Press) appeared in May 2023, and Gender and Firearms: My Body, My Choice, My Gun (Routledge) examining the gun industry’s efforts to create a women’s market in firearms in the USA came out on April 1^st 2024.

Prof. Squires has been an advisor on firearms controls (Home Affairs Select Committee, 2010), firearms licensing (2015) and was a member of the NPCC Independent Advisory Group on the Criminal Use of Firearms (now the NCA Firearms Prevent Board).