Paul Knepper, Ph.D.
Department Chair
Ph.D., Arizona State University; Tempe, AZ
Contact Information:
Email: paul.knepper@sjsu.edu
Phone: 408-924-1350
Office: MH 524A
About Dr. Paul Knepper:
Paul Knepper received his Ph.D. in Justice Studies from the School of Justice Studies and Social Transformation at Arizona State University. For twelve years, he worked at the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom where he was professor of criminology in the School of Law. He served as editor-in-chief, European Journal of Criminology, and as an associate editor of the Oxford Research Reviews in Criminology series. Since 2013, he has been visiting professor of criminology at the School of Criminal Sciences, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
Areas of Interest:
- Trafficking and transnational criminal law,
- Historical science as a methodology
- Comparative legal history involving race/ethnicity.
Recent Publications:
Paul Knepper and Per J. Ystehede, eds, Cesare Lombroso: The Criminal Sciences and Beyond. London: Routledge/Taylor & Francis (forthcoming)
Paul Knepper, “Cesare Lombroso and the Body in the Morgue” in Stephen MacDonald and Donna Peacock, eds, Routledge Handbook of Disability, Crime and Justice. New York: Routledge (forthcoming).
Paul Knepper, “Theories of Crime in American History” Pp 23-42 in James Campbell and Vivien Miller, eds, The Routledge History of Crime in America. New York: Routledge, 2025.
Paul Knepper, ‘The Japanese American Incarceration and the Origins of Penology in California: A Microhistory’ Howard Journal of Crime and Justice (2025)
Paul Knepper, “Historical Methods in Criminology” in Henry Pontell, ed, Oxford Research Encyclopaedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice (online) New York: Oxford University Press, 2024.
Paul Knepper, “Being the First: Women and the Memory of San José Police School, 1930-1964” Journal of Criminal Justice 85 (2023) 1-8.
Paul Knepper, “Cesare Lombroso: An Unconventional Biography” Pp 53-69 in Stefano Sandrone and Lorenzo Lorusso, eds, The Birth of Modern Neuroscience in Turin. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022.
Paul Knepper, “The League of Nations, Traffic in Women and the Transnationalization of Criminal Law” Rechtsgeschichte/Legal History 30 (2022) 131-144.
Paul Knepper, “August Vollmer, Traffic in Women, and the Theory of Organized Crime” Social Sciences 11 (2022) 283-298.
Paul Knepper. Review of Central Prison: A History of North Carolina's State Penitentiary, by Gregory S. Taylor. Louisiana State University Press, in Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books, 2022
Paul Knepper, “Jeremy Bentham and Historical Criminology” Pp 183-186 in Scott Jacques and Phillip Schofield, eds, Jeremy Bentham on Police: The Unknown Story and What It Means for Criminology. London: UCL Press, 2021.
