David Scott

David Gordon Scott is a British criminologist, abolitionist and author. He is a criminologist at The Open University in Milton Keynes. Scott's research interests span the field of criminology, particularly focusing on socialist ethics, abolitionism, social harm, liberative justice, harms of capitalist states, and state-corporate harm. Scott is the Co-Founding Editor of the Journal Justice, Power and Resistance. He is also known for his contributions in documentaries including Punishment: A Failed Social Experiment and the BBC Ideas Viewpoint – What Would A World Without Prisons Be Like? Early life and education Scott received a B.A. honors degree in Applied Social Science in 1994 and a post-graduate master's degree in Crime, Deviance and Social Policy in 1996 from Lancaster University. Later, in 2006, he completed his PhD under the supervision of Barbara Hudson from the University of Central Lancashire, and his thesis was titled Ghosts beyond our realm: A neo-abolitionist analysis of prisoner human rights and prison office culture He has also earned a certificate in Adult Education teaching from City and Guilds and became a Fellow of higher education academy.