Paul Walton

Paul Walton is a British sociologist and criminologist best known as co-author, with Ian Taylor and Jock Young, of the 1973 book The New Criminology: For a Social Theory of Deviance, a work that critiqued established classical and positivist approaches to crime and became one of the founding texts of critical criminology in Britain. Walton later co-edited, with Jock Young, the retrospective volume The New Criminology Revisited, assessing the original book's continuing influence and the criticisms it drew over the following decades. Along with Taylor and Young he also helped edit the journal Critical Criminology, extending the critical tradition the three had established.