Sir Anthony Edward Bottoms FBA (born 29 August 1939) is a British criminologist.
[5] He was knighted in 2001 for services to the criminal justice system,[6] an Honorary Doctor of Laws at the University of Edinburgh in 2015, and is a Fellow of the British Academy.
[7] Bottoms' influence within British and global criminology and upon criminal justice practice has been considerable.
He has published and contributed towards a large number of highly influential journal articles, official reports, book chapters, and books on topics including environmental criminology, probation, the sociology of punishment, community penalties, desistance research, policing, and prisons.
Among his contributions, he coined the term 'populist punitiveness' in 1995, subsequently more widely referred to as penal populism, a hypothesis that became influential within the sociology of punishment.